The Land of Pious becomes the Land of Terrorists

The Land of Pious becomes the Land of Terrorists

By Zakir Qadir Shams

         WHEN I was browsing the pages of a newspaper on internet, a sentence on the front page magnetized my studiousness that I commenced to peruse, “Somalia ky bad Pakistan dunya main dehshat gardon ka sab se bara maskan ban gaya.” It packed my senses because it was in all the opposite of the meaning of Pakistan, the land of pure people and the sentence meant Pakistan becomes the second biggest home to the terrorists in the world, (according to a study published by a British global risks advisory firm).  

        Pakistan becomes the second among 16 countries at extreme risk from terrorism replacing Afghanistan. Consequently the unofficial and unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the country, more than 2,000 people have been killed since 2007 in a wave of deadly attack by militants, say the security experts.

        Pakistan became the country second most at risk, while Afghanistan slipped from second place to fourth which has been constantly uttering with the neighboring  country India that Pakistan is the epicenter of terrorism from where the all evils of terrorism are emanating.

        The entire world recognizes Pakistan in the front line of terrorism. The American Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen says, “Pak-Afghan border in the world is the most dangerous place. This is the epicenter of terrorist networks and the most who live here are Pakistanis who are attempting to get a hold on the atomic weapons of the country”.

       He will definitely be accurate if we conjecture it from the October 2009 attack on the General Headquarters (GHQ) which was debated in the columns of newspapers long.

       “I am not revealing anything new, the Taliban leaders have been given shelters in Pakistan”, says the head of the Foreign Affairs of France, Bernhaid  Koushner.

       The international intellectuals have openly declared that Pakistan is indeed a failed state.

      The country’s Federal Interior Minster Rehman Malik says in amendment, “there is no external hand involved in creating terrorism in Pakistan”. In addition he points out; it is the local people who are involved in these crimes.