By: Bushra Gohar
These days’ people living in NWFP are being prepared for the stoneage as has been promised on several occasions by the powers that be. Electricity and gas remains suspended for hours on end, daily food items are way too expensive for the common man, unemployment figures are high, there is a total breakdown of law and order and the state has ceased to exist to ensure our constitutional rights but shows its ugly head only to pound us with indiscriminate bombings through illegal and in human operations justified in the name of war on terror... things are worse in the areas where these operations are directly taking place targeting and terrorizing mainly the innocent civilians...this after the much touted Musharraf's dream team's 8 years of peace, prosperity and progress in the country. The UN report issued on one of the private channels says that more than 400 families have moved to the neigbouring to take refuge, as the government has made no effort to provide food, shelter and medical assistance to the civilian population living in the line of fire...
Thus on a freezing cold winter evening last night, without gas and electricity, the masses were given a rare break for an hour to listen to their unconstitutional and self imposed president shed crocodile tears over the loss of BB and further the blame game...as expected the speech was nothing but hollow words insensitive to the sentiments of the people...it was that of a conspirator of a heinous crime...one was hoping that he would for once do the honourable thing and accept responsibility for taking the country to the verge of disintegration and civil war and announce his resignation and offer unconditional accountability, opening the way for a National consensus government and an independent election commission, restoration of judiciary and lifting of the gag on the media...but that was a bit too much to expect from a power hungry thug and his gang of criminals who know that their only survival is in keeping the nation in a perpetual chaotic state....instead, he passed on the buck to the state sponsored, trained and sustained Baitullah Mehsud and Fazlullah for the targeted cold blooded killing in an attempt to incite Pukhtun Sindhi tensions in the country...his government has gone overboard over the years to declare the Pukhtuns extremists and terrorists of the worst order...justifying the continued illegal operations against the Pukhtuns. The conversation in Pushtu between Baitullah Mehsud and another person congratulating each other for a mission well accomplished after BB's cold blooded murder, was immediately released to all networks to divert the public’s attention to the "trigger happy and barbaric" Pukhtuns in a clear attempt to provoke ethnic riots...In the tapes Baitullah Mehsud gives out his whereabouts and yet our efficient agencies were not able to catch him...instead the establishment got busy in covering the facts and issued ridiculous and callous statements about the tragic incident…one thing is for sure the people in the province can no longer tolerate or believe a word of what Musharraf says not even if it means a break from the long power outages…
The idealist in me still hopes that the people will call his bluff by voting out his goons in the Q league in the upcoming polls and giving a decisive 'No' to Musharraf...but the question is will the elections take place as scheduled..I suspect more riots and chaos will be orchestrated during Moharram to defer the elections indefinitely and the nation will be condemned to another 5 years of Musharaf's dictatorship...we must all join hands to strengthen the 'Quit Musharraf Movement' by a group of Human Rights activists or prepare for the dark times yet to come stripped of our basic rights and services...lets not tolerate this oppression any further...BG
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