Its been nearly a week now since the city was under the terror seize last Wednesday, the ordeal continued for good 60 hrs the media went all out giving “exclusive” live coverage and minute details, the way these 10 terrorists went about their attack, their route, the gore bloodbath, eyewitness accounts, we have been through it all for the last few days.
Almost everyone debating or voicing their opinions lapse in security, inadequacy on behalf of the police force in tackling terror and just how incompetent our politicians are ……..But amidst all this huge outcry and uproar we seem top have forgotten to tackle the main issues –“terrorism” all we seem or rather pretend to do is talk about it at a very surface level not one person or channel in the last few days has actually gone onto truly analyze the real reasons behind what’s happening and what’s even more frightening is the various gruesome ,hateful , violent conclusion many are coming some of which even go on to proclaim bombing Pakistan entirely , its scary to think of how people are now drawing to such conclusions and equating all of Pakistan to terrorist ,agreed we do have evidence to show and prove that these terrorist came from Karachi but does that mean the whole state is terrorist breeding ground? Where are we headed?? That’s rather ironic cause in our country itself we do have so many “extremists” who have caused the very same amount of pain and anguish what with the babri masjid, godhra (many of whom are yet to be booked and those who have been booked nothing much has really happened there….) but does that really make us the “entire “ nation an “extremist” “radical” nation that I doubt also the second thing that’s nearly eating into me right now is that why hasn’t anyone out there for once actually thought of analysing the recent raise in terror attacks as a developmental crisis why doesn’t anyone see it as a problem of inequity,
A problem of lack of opportunities, why is that we fail to see it as normal people (like you and me) pushed onto the brink of exploitation ,where the disparity between the classes seems to be widening with each passing day and there just no way out look at what green revolution did in our very own country ? in Punjab with the coming of green revolution the richer became richer and the poorer became poorer ,there was this increased level of frustration among the masses which obviously was channelized through the
Medium of terrorism ,look at north east ,Jammu and Kashmir the increasing insurgency , its later then that is giving a fundamentalist or a fanatic outlook (but the core issues remains the same that people take to it initially because of the appalling conditions of inequity ) , I personally don’t know how having better security is going to help cause honestly these kind of terrorist activity that we saw in Mumbai was high end command sort of technique never used before ,yes better security can definitely be used as a preventive measure but relying on it completely to do away with any such further attacks that I doubt will actually happen as long as we continue leaving in this globalized world ,where development is a part of this gobalized reality we will continue facing terror attacks only if we realize soon enough and awaken ourselves to the growing inequity and hopefully work towards finding a solution we just might be able to combat terror but finding that solution is never to easy but then again its not all that difficult either if only we make a start today if only……..
