Things have never been so old, to manipulate the truth. An uproar was heard, when the court issued its verdict on the video of a girl belonging to swat, allegedly flogged by the Taliban, as a fake one. Reactionary arguments started, claiming that the mainstream media should be tried for the guilt which according to them caused military intervention across Swat, Malakand, Dir and Buner. Meanwhile, the terrorists bathed Charsadda in blood. Different people gave different responses. Some tried to give it nationalistic colour, some blasted as usual at religious fanatics, some taunted at secular and liberals, some tried to promote their party that their workers were first to provide relief and first aid to victims of the incident, some persons condemned the attack, some institutions reaffirmed their oral faith to fight the enemies till the death of last terrorists, whereas some were just silent, unable to react in any means due to shock. This has never been something new.
For years, we saw the nurseries developing into crops, self recurring after harvest, their dropped seeds incorporating inside the soil for a future crop. It is said, that you reap what you sow. Today we are reaping. Since, the seeds have been incorporated for years, the complete elimination may take an equal number of years, if not double. One may not agree about the art of harvesting, but no one can falsify the harvest in principle. The atrocities which we are facing at their hands in the name of terrorism, just as others outside our country faced years before us in the name of so called Jehad, are as tragic as the previous. The question here for us to understand is that if we believe that a man reaps what he sows, then admit that we are now reaping, which is going to cost us. Just as reaping is opposite to sowing, in the same way the outcome of our sowing which cost others to hurt will definitely reshape into hurting us when we reap it now. It may sound annoying, but thats the harsh reality. And the irony is, that everytime the common man suffered. Perhaps, one may object to nature here, but only if he is not aware of the background.
Today, we are at the crucial stage. Those, infact a large segment of the society, who are still convinced that a dialogue instead of war with militants would bear fruitful results are trying to act as an ostrich who hides his head in sand for protection. Trained to kill will never become pacifists. And those who believe in extermination of these beasts, should also accept that the state's armed forces alone can never eliminate them. They will have to believe that successful extermination is possible only after exterminating the breeders. Only the state's system can do it, and armed forces is only a part of the state's system. If system as a whole produces militants continuously and a part of it, say the armed forces, reaps it, then this never ending process will continue with no results. Ignorance begets terrorism. Poverty catalyses it. Sectarianism intensifies it. Imperialism occupies it. If system as whole will produce poverty, illiteracy and sectarian hatred through its imperial foothold and the armed forces will only fight without being assisted from the system by jamming the channels which provides fresh blood to terrorism in the form of poverty, illiteracy etc, then nothing will come out of the bag.
Terrorism, as it is often called, have now become a state of mind. The first responsibility on our part is to segregate our mind from such ideas by saying no to those who provides blood for it. Whoever they are and with whatever a name or slogan they use it for this, whether religious or atheist, must be rejected. Understanding the things has never been so difficult as it was in past. Be noble. Allah be praised
