I'm quite fed up with all the bullshit spewed forth by every Pakistani whenever anything goes wrong in the country. It is never our fault. There is always a conspiracy theory and everyone else from India to the US to the Jews and everything in between is to blame.
The horrendous unpardonable attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team is a case in point. Within minutes of the attack people had started blaming RAW, the sister concern of the ISI in India. Whether RAW had anything to do with today's attack is besides the point. The truth is that the security lapses that led to this tragedy were horrendous and the blame for them lies squarely on the Pakistan Government and the PCB.
Presidential level security had been promised to the Sri Lankan cricket team, but what they got was a cheapass bus, two rickety police jeeps (with under trained, incompetent policemen) and a couple of motorcycle riders. Having suffered Presidential motorcades for the last 30 years I can assure you that is not how President's travel in this country.
I remember once counting 106 cars in the motorcade of the useless Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari. Musharaf had decoy routes and cars and a huge entourage, not too long ago I had to wait 45 minutes on a road adjoining The Mall because Musharaf was going to pass that way, in the end they decided on a different route! Unarguably the most useless President of Pakistan ever, Rafiq Tarar, had a huge posse of Police protecting him years after he had left the presidency. Zardari has literally hundreds of policemen and his own personal force protecting him at all times. With all due respect to Leghari, Musharaf, Tarar and Zardari, the Sri Lankan players' lives were and are far more important than these hopeless pieces of lard we call Presidents.
6 policemen gave their lives in the ensuing battle, they are to be saluted and the nation should honour these heroes who gave their lives in the line of duty, but, that should not take our focus away from the fact that these were Punjab Police personnel, much less trained than Presidential Guards or Army Commandos and equipped with much inferior weaponry, not to mention the shabby vehicles they were travelling in. Presidential motorcades have shiny brand new double cabin Toyota Hilux 4X4's filled with commandos armed to the teeth.
If the Sri Lankan's were being given President level security let us have Zardari travelling in non-bullet proof vehicles from now on. We need to find out who was responsible for this state of affairs. Who authorized such abysmal security. Heads need to roll.
The other area we need to carefully think of is the lack of condemnation for such heinous acts among the general population of our country. As said before we blame everybody else for our ills, we are somehow always the aggrieved party. How many of us will come out into the streets to protest this incident? Is this issue less important than reinstating a corrupt Chief Justice, or the equally corrupt and unethical PML Nawaz leadership? And if we fail to protest against incidents like these do we have a right to blame anyone?
Introspection is a tool often neglected in our society. Since in the defeatist philosophy of our culture, everything that happens is either God's Will or the machinations of unseen forces we have come to a point where we have stopped even the basic thought processes.
Time to stop this stupidity.Time to start thinking again.
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