By: Aasef Chauhdry
It was a rough,
sad and tragic day for Pakistan, when the two big cities of the country;
Islamabad and Lahore were shaken. Lahore rocked with a nasty blast. More than
60 persons were been killed and over 200 others were wounded in a
bloody bomb blast at Gulshan e Iqbal Park Lahore. Employees of the park said
that the park was packed with people since it was Sunday and Easter holiday,
together. Witnesses said there were pools of blood and scattered body parts in
the park, where a large number of families, especially women and children, were
enjoying their weekend. The dead and the wounded were ferried to the
Jinnah Hospital, Sheikh Zayed Hospital and other nearby hospitals, while an
emergency has been declared in all the hospitals of Lahore. Rescuers say the
blast occurred at the central gate of the park near the motorcycle parking
stand. According to the Rescue 1122 spokesman, an emergency call was received
at around 6:44pm.
While this gory
incident was taking place in Lahore the angry mobs were gathering at various
places in Rawalpindi and silently
praying for a march towards Islamabad. The LEAs sensing the protesters’
intentions had made ample arrangements to control and stop them at the outer
skirts of the Capital. However, the angry and uncontrollable mob ran into Red
Zone where they did hell broken destruction. As per reports they were gathered to
mark the Chehlum of Mumtaz Qadri, who assassinated the then Punjab governor
Salman Taseer. The stick-wielding protestors began their march from Rawalpindi
and reached outside the Parliament House. The representatives of government
administration had hold talks with the protestors who had reached the Red Zone
with demands. The protesters assured that they would remain calm and wait for
their leaders who are on their way and later present their demands to the
government. Nevertheless, the angry demonstrators didn’t keep their words and
set containers blocking the roads on fire outside the Parliament House where no
presence of law enforcement agencies was witnessed. Eventually, the government
had to call in the army troops as tension gripped Red Zone after angry
protestors gathered at D-Chowk.
Apparently
these were two law & order cases, happened as had been happening in past
but if one goes into the details and critically observe the events then many
startling facts will reveal. Like; the timings of these two incidents. Both
happened almost simultaneously which can’t be by chance, especially in the
backdrop of RAW agent Kulbhushun’s arrest, at Lahore picking the day when it
was Easter and otherwise weekend and the park was jam packed with the visitors,
mostly ladies and children, both the tragic events happened soon after the
arrest of RAW agent, a serving naval officer Commander Kulbhushun Yadav.
It has left no
doubt that both the happenings had our neighbour India’s infamous intelligence
agency RAW’s hand in it. It is very simple that both the accidents were planned
to gain two objects; to pressurize our government to release Yadav and to
divert our intelligence agencies attention from his investigation and towards
these two bloody events. To be very honest the government can’t disown their
share of the blame because in the very first place PEMRA had played a very
negative role in this all. The day Qadri was hanged; his funeral was a great
gathering which history rarely witnessed. Unfortunately PEMRA issued instructions
to media to totally blackout the coverage of his Janazah. It was ordered to
that media which doesn’t spare the covering of even towel-tearing. Obviously it
infuriated his fans and followers, irrespective of it that they were wrong or
right they should of have been accommodated. No one can deny that it was a big
scoop and missing or ignoring it purposely couldn’t be tolerated. Our enemy no.
1 India who is all time monitoring our national pulse found this glaring
mistake as ripe reason to achieve their goal.
Another
main reason is our government’s apologetic attitude towards India, which one is
fail to understand as to why we always lower ourselves in front of Indians’
illogical and senseless desires and demands? They have never found or red handed
caught any Pakistani involved in any terrorist activity in India yet they
always level allegations and desire that Pakistan should take severe action
against those whom Indians don’t ‘Like’, whereas, in case of Pakistan, the
victims of Samjhota Express are still waiting for the justice. The culprits
were caught by the Indian law enforcing agencies long ago but were released on
bail and we couldn’t do anything.
The time has come
that the government should seriously think over implementing the national action plan which was designed and drafted
after the series of epic committees ‘meetings. Only armed forces or ISI can’t
handle everything. As they claim, that a democratic and elected government is
in chair, at least some deliverance should be visible. The vetting of top
government echelons has become must. They situation will improve only when a
couple of responsible heads will roll. It’s high time for government to do away
with adhocism.
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