A Dead Body Worship

A Dead Body Worship

By: Zakir Qadir shams

       It was very scandalizing to gawk all the News Channels broadcasting quietus news of a MQM leader, Dr Imran Farooq, who was stabbed to death in front of his apartment on September 16, in the UK capital city, London.

      His dead body was brought after more than one and an half month. A day before of landing the flight PK-788, which contained the dead body, to Karachi, the security was made high-powered. Five thousand Rangers and Police men were to guard the integral area, including two hundred more vigorous lads from the associates of MQM were circumambulating with passes to make the security stronger. Two helicopters were to guard the area in the air. Nobody was allowed to carry arms even though with license. All the emporiums, shops and markets were to remain closed.   

       On November 6, the corpse reached Karachi from London; all the security sponsors started their functions. Thousands of mourners attended the funeral procession and said his funeral prayers behind Maulana Asad Thanvi. The law enforcement agencies were high alert and heavy deployment was seen across the city. While passing through each zone, the officers form that sections monitored the body, tell the burial chamber.

      It was so indifferent for to watch this occasion on the tube but I kept watching because it strained my mind to devise torrents of startling thoughts. And my inside consequently précised these all occurrences, just in one phrase which was “A dead body worship”.

       I was dragged to the world of the indigent where they lack utmost care. They are lying on the passages and footpaths. Millions of homeless victims of the recent flood are rolling their twenty-four hours in peneplains. The jobless young cohort is wondering helplessly on the streets of the country. Hundreds of innocent people are being blown up in bomb blasts and too many others are coming to be the victims of gang wars and target killings, who do not get a proper burial, but nobody rather cares for them.

       Where goes the heavy deployment that time when the country’s peace is lost? Why the law enforcement agencies get mislaid when the time of high alertness comes? These can be some of the inappropriately answered questions for the rulers of this country but the fact is that there is no peace at any corner in here. The possessions and life of the common man are not protected. They are putting up with deep-rooted complexities and agonizing setbacks.

       Attributed to the kissing prices of the daily commodities, more than half our population sleeps without a piece of staff of life in their bellies. Facilities of education and better health have not been provided to them. To put it succinctly, in the country the living lacks all the fundamental needs of life but we saw how a deceased was worshiped.  

        Now that must be obvious, it is not the time to apotheosize deceased but it is to save alive.