In all seriousness, there are a few pakistanis on here who perhaps don’t post at all in this section because of the vibe. the inquests, criticism and naivety for dealing with these people can come tomorrow.
for now stay safe and we all mourn those 132 poor children. better days will come, inshallah.
Way to make a post about something serious to not so subtly keep pushing your pov about us all. You’re a good samiritan for caring about this children…
Al Quaida is slowly but surely burning its bridges.
^ Agreed. This is really a horrible act of terrorism. My sympathies with Pakistan. A country trying to do the right thing, generally, while fighting terrorists and extremists within.
That was just disgusting.
I agree with the notion that Islamic terrorists are losing every bit of legitimacy they ever had.
Interesting
Isildurrr has returned to AF in original username form.
legitimacy, haha!
Yes ; there is a resistance component to many movements that are considered terrorist in the USA.
Hezbollah for example. 99% of Americans would consider them dangerous terrorists.
But you can be damn sure that many Chiites in Lebanon are happy that the Hezbollah exists.
Absolutely, seriously heart breaking. 132 kids all aged 12+. Read that the entire 9th grade except one student was murdered. Imagine the trauma the surviving kids have to go through. Stay safe… Isildurrr, well said - better days will definitely come.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/17/world/asia/pakistan-peshawar-school-attack/
"Afghan Taliban slam Pakistan counterparts
This is the deadliest incident inside Pakistan since October 2007, when 139 Pakistanis died and more than 250 others were wounded in an attack near a procession for exiled former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, according to the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database.
Even the Taliban in Afghanistan, who are closely affiliated with their Pakistani counterparts, criticized the killing of women and children as against Islamic teaching.
The spokesman for the Afghan terror group expressed condolences to the victims of Tuesday’s attack."
Well, now I’ve seen it all.
Seriously. A jewish grandmother is less passive-aggressive than that post.
I think something might have got lost in translation. Our sympathies should of course lie with the Pakistani people who are subjected to constant terror and harrasment and the number of parents who’se hearts must have skipped a beat upon hearing the news. It is also of concern that their voices count for so less in a country where the democratic system has become a sham.
It is difficult to extend that sympathy to the Pakistan government and their military. This is the military who’se intelligence service pursued an active policy of developing and sponsoring terrorsim as a means to wrest Kashmir from India and are now unable to control what they had a active hand in developing. Going a bit further back India and Pakistan were born together with the same problems, poverty, social injustice,colonialism and the vast amount of blood spilled due to ethnic warfare were common to both nations. 50 years on and India looks towards wealth and prosperity where as Pakistan looks towards a long bitter fight with religious extremism and finds itself more fractured than ever despite having a muslim population lesser than India till recently.
This is not random, the reasons for this can be firmly traced to their founders and their generals. While India’s founders looked towards a secular and agnostic education based on the principles of science and the Indian generals accepted a disciplined role limited to their sphere, Pakistan’s founders chose to pursue a path of an education system slightly Islamic and their power hungry generals started gaining far too much influence after the early wars with India.
General Zia’s coup and the the laws passed strengthening Islamic fundamentalism proved to be the final nail in it’s coffin. Ultimately we all make the bed we lie in and Pakistan’s problems are a firm consequence of the decisions their leaders have made. It should also be noted that what happened here was not a case of religious extremism but a unique power struggle where the school was targeted due to housing a large number of army children as a consequence of the army hammering the Taliban in the porous borders of the North.
Hopefully this results in a more concentrated effort by the army to stamp out the terror groups they themselves are responsible for creating.
This was a nice editorial by a Pakistani newspaper :
Always wanted Pak to have a test of their own medicine…but some how i am really feeling sad about what happened to kids in Pakistan…hope the government of Pakistan learns some lessons from this event and help other countries like India/USA etc in removing terrorism…
Why do you always have to make everything about India? No one gives a shit about your comparison of India and Pakistan over the past 50 years and why one has “wealth and prosperity” (sic) and the other not…
Pakistan and India aren’t the same country?
India is the one that invented hot chicks in Lululemon pants. Pakistan is where you end up if you take the E subway line into Queens.
Pray for the children who lost there lives and there parents . Someone who can kill an innocent in cold blood has no religon no matter what religon they claim to be part of.
In the Quran there is a verse that states if you kill one innocent human being it is though you have killed the enitre humanity and if you save one innocent human being from dying it is as though you have saved the entire humanity.