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#JusticeForZainab is trending internationally after the kidnap, rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl shook Pakistan.
Zainab was missing for five days after being kidnapped on her way to a tuition centre, before her body was found dumped in a pile of rubbish in Kasur on Tuesday (9 January). Officials said she had been raped multiple times and then strangled to death. No one has yet been arrested, although pictures were circulating on social media showing a bearded man hand in hand in Zainab.
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Children are murdered everyday, in drone strikes, in neglected sqalor, in forgotten destitution. A few tasteless youths of the western world have their meaningless lives extinguished and its a crisis? What utter absurdity. Kids are literally starving to death, being sold into slavery, wasting away in sweatshops making the clothes you wear, and the world is horrible because some privileged morons have to get swept off the floor? The moral elitism displayed in the wake of this is what’s reprehensible. Gather up the ignorant fashion show that is your excuse for a philosophy and see reality for what it is, or join your friends in the grave.
Are you kidding me?
Every life matters.
Yes, a lot of tragedies go ignored, and yes, they deserve better, but that does not undermine the lives of the people who were affected today. And don’t blame the problems that you mentioned above on the innocent children who had nothing to do with them.
In December 2014, more than 150 students and members of the staff were brutally killed at the APS School in Peshawar, Pakistan by terrorists. However, this incident received almost no attention from the international community.
Similarly, many other heinous acts are glossed over by biased media outlets worldwide, and while that *is* deplorable, it does not undermine the incidents that they do choose to bring to the world’s attention.
Because at the end of the day, we’re all human and every human life is worth remembering.
i encourage u all to post this on any of your social media, esp with friends/family out of tumblr etc. just because the media wants to silence these acts doesn’t mean we have to.
Blast kills at least 13 in Pakistani city of Lahore, 83 injured
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Blast kills at least 13 in Pakistani city of Lahore, 83 injured
An explosion near the Punjab provincial assembly in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least 13 people and wounded 83 others on Monday, a senior police official said. Mushtaq Sukhera, inspector general of police in Punjab province, said five police officers were among the dead when an explosion rocked a protest organised by Pakistan’s chemists and pharmaceuticals manufacturers.
It was a suicide attack. The bomber exploded himself when successful negotiations were underway between police officials and the protesters.
Mushtaq Sukhera, inspector general of police in Punjab province
A spokesman for Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, called Reuters and claimed responsibility. Jamaat-ur-Ahrar had also claimed responsibility for an Easter Day bombing in Lahore last year that killed more than 70 people in a public park. Security in Pakistan has vastly improved in recent years but Islamist groups such as the Pakistani Taliban and Islamic State still pose a threat and have carried out mass attacks. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the attacks will not weaken Pakistan’s resolve in fight against militancy.
We have fought this fight against the terrorists among us, and will continue to fight it until we liberate our people of this cancer, and avenge those who have laid down their lives for us.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Valentine's Day: Banned
Lol someone makes documentaries about actual issues that the society’s facing and the entire country calls them a hypocrite for giving Pakistan a bad reputation. And yet we have no problem with this. We care SO much about Pakistan’s image, but don’t mind people calling us fascists and extremists and saying things like “that’s right, Islam and love don’t go together” over the ban of a harmless occasion. Double standards smh. If you’re so worried about obscenity and vulgarity, teach your own children some values instead of imposing bans on everyone else.
Agreed, the whole concept of Valentine’s Day is very commercial, but the country’s priorities: 💯 💯 🏆 Don’t ban anything that matters in the least, anything that’s actually plaguing the nation, kay? Ban an expression of love. Arrest a man who does song covers on Facebook. Forbid sportsmen from warming up before a match. Expel teachers from the country. What a glorious nation, indeed. We’re going to go down in history as one of the Pettiest Countries Ever. This isn’t about the Valentine’s Day ban, this is about our priorities. And if celebrating the day is so unIslamic, why not also ban all the other *numerous* unIslamic activities in society? Either stick to a stance and BE an Islamic state, or stop banning whatever *you* don’t personally agree with.
Valentine's Day: Banned
Lol someone makes documentaries about actual issues that the society's facing and the entire country calls them a hypocrite for giving Pakistan a bad reputation. And yet we have no problem with this. We care SO much about Pakistan's image, but don't mind people calling us fascists and extremists and saying things like "that's right, Islam and love don't go together" over the ban of a harmless occasion. Double standards smh. If you're so worried about obscenity and vulgarity, teach your own children some values instead of imposing bans on everyone else. Agreed, the whole concept of Valentine's Day is very commercial, but the country's priorities: 💯 💯 🏆 Don't ban anything that matters in the least, anything that's actually plaguing the nation, kay? Ban an expression of love. Arrest a man who does song covers on Facebook. Forbid sportsmen from warming up before a match. Expel teachers from the country. What a glorious nation, indeed. We're going to go down in history as one of the Pettiest Countries Ever. This isn't about the Valentine's Day ban, this is about our priorities. And if celebrating the day is so unIslamic, why not also ban all the other *numerous* unIslamic activities in society? Either stick to a stance and BE an Islamic state, or stop banning whatever *you* don't personally agree with.
The sky disappeared behind the fire and smoke.
Almost a year ago today, I remember waking up at 5 in the morning, opening Facebook and reading a status that said, “TTP: you finally hit us where it hurts the most.” I remember thinking, “No… not another attack.” And then I scrolled through my news feed, and I realized that this wasn’t just another attack. It was so much more.
Almost a year ago today, I remember how my heart almost dropped out of my ribcage. First, there were 80 kids gone. Refresh. 90. Refresh. 110. Refresh. 130. Until the death toll rose to 140, and I remember thinking with a surreal numbness, “they were just kids.”
Almost a year ago today, Pakistan bled. We’ve bled so many times over the years; we’ve bled constantly, but on December 16th, 2014, all the stitched wounds were yanked open and Pakistan bled more than it ever had before.
And I say this with the utmost sincerity. No exaggerations, no dramatization. No. Just the truth.
But then I think about what the parents went through- that day when their kids were in their school with… creatures. Not animals, but creatures, because animals are not so callous. What did those parents go through when they stood outside, not knowing if their child was going to step out of the door or if their child was going to be carried out.
What did those kids go through? The child who got shot in the legs and had to put his tie in his mouth to stop from screaming so he could escape. The child who lay under the lifeless bodies of his friends, pretending to be dead. An entire ninth grade wiped out, leaving only one survivor, who is alive today because his alarm clock didn’t go off.
A year ago today, many of us changed our social media profile pictures to black, as a show of solidarity, as a show that we know, we see, we remember, and we will never forget. But on the first anniversary of this attack, I don’t want to change it to black. I want to change it to something else. I want to put a face to the children who were there, who lost their friends and teachers, who lost their innocence and their childhood. Whose eyes many will see throughout their lives and think, “Those eyes have seen things.” Today, I want to express how proud I am of these kids that they donned their uniforms, swung their backpacks on their shoulders and went back to their school.
If Pakistan is anything, it is resilient. And if Pakistan deserves a face, it is not the face of its politicians - it is the face of these children who lost so much but who show us what it means to push back our shoulders, to hold our chins up and carry on. Because these aren’t “just kids” like I thought almost a year ago today. They are so much more.
On this day, two years ago, six gunmen entered the Army Public School in Pakistan, Peshawar.
On this day, two years ago, they brutally murdered 148 school children, their teachers, their classmates.
Today, two years later, the children of Peshawar welcome the children of Aleppo into heaven.
There is no time to grieve, because they never stop killing our children.
Please, there is still time to change Aleppo’s fate. Do it for the sake of the mothers in Peshawar, who will never hear their children’s footsteps returning from school - do it for the children in Gaza, who stand rooted in front of tanks.
Do it for the children of Aleppo, because they deserve peace. Do it for the children of Peshawar, because they deserved peace.
Please, don’t let Aleppo’s children suffer.
On December 16th 2014, we vowed to #neverforget the incident that shook us all. The Communication Design students of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture have taken initiative and designed a series of posters that aim to question our indifference and numbness towards violence. A reminder of the brutal attack on APS Peshawar and an eye-opener for us to never forget and to never get used to any kind of violence around us.
@ all Islamophobes
The next time you think Muslims are terrorists, just remember 16th December, 2014. Terrorists killed 132 children at Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan because they wanted revenge against their fathers who, in the Pak Army, were fighting to obliterate them. These kids lost their lives because of that. They were between 12 to 18 years old. They had their whole lives ahead of them. And now they’re gone.
And you fucking dare to call them and their families terrorists? No, asshole, they were killed by terrorists. The fact that you can’t make this simple distinction between the killer and the victim shows how dumb you are. So the next time you think Muslims are terrorists or that Muslims should “tell the terrorists to stop” remember this. We, as a nation, fought against them, and we paid the price. And we’re still doing it. So shut the fuck up.
And not to mention that Pakistan alone has lost millions of citizens to terrorist bombings and shootings that go unreported and ignored by the international media.
This is a meme going around Facebook and Twitter a lot, and I felt like I had to speak up.
I salute Waleed Khan and agree that it was indeed an act of courageousness to go back to school, but I don’t think this comparison is justified. See, this is why our growth remains stunted - because we pit our own people against each other. You may think that it isn’t that big of a deal: it’s just one meme, after all. But it really isn’t. It’s our mindset as a nation, and it’s bringing us down. Both of these brave young people, and countless more, have given so much just to protect their rights and their country, and it’s unfair to compare them. This is what happens almost every time someone - especially if it’s a female - makes a contribution to Pakistan. We start hating on them.
Despite what we think, Malala didn’t just get shot in the head randomly. “It could’ve been anyone else,” we say. “Hundreds of women were denied the right to education. What makes Malala so special?”
And we’re absolutely right. But it wasn’t someone else, was it? Why do we look up to Jinnah so much? There were hundreds of other Muslims who wanted a separate homeland too. What made him so special? And Iqbal and Sir Syed were the ones who came up with the Two Nation Theory, which means Jinnah was an unoriginal leech who gets more credit than he deserves. Right? Wrong.
If we bothered actually reading up on what Malala stood for, we’d discover that she was a blogger who wrote about her life in Swat and the hardships her people, especially the women, were put through by the Taliban. She was one of the few people in the area who stood up for her right to an education and she was punished for it. Did it silence her, though? No, she bounced back stronger than ever.
And correct me if I’m wrong, but 99% of her own people disowned her while she addressed the UN, while she received the Nobel prize, while she raised her voice for female education and visited schools around the globe to talk about the importance of going to school. Was it jealously, sexism or just plain idiocy? She was supposed to be OUR asset, OUR hero, but instead of providing her with the medical facilities that she needed, the education that she had been fighting for, the protection that she required to continue her efforts and the support and recognition that she deserved, we subtly cast her out of her own country. And so the West welcomed her with open arms and we didn’t even bother trying to get her back. Instead, while millions of European children sent her cards and gifts and wrote essays about how she inspired them, we called her an American agent. We told our children that she was secretly working against Pakistan, that she had betrayed the country by moving abroad (oh, the irony - what about your own failed immigration attempt? Or that Chachu of yours who moved to England ten years ago and hasn’t been to Pakistan since?) Pray, did WE provide her with a home and a free quality education? Did WE promise to help her achieve her goals and spread good in the world? Did WE invite her to seminars and conferences? Did WE support her in her mission? Do we even know of, or care about, her cause?
I don’t claim to know all the facts, but what I do know is that we Pakistanis never get tired of conspiracy theories and portraying everyone who tries to do a grain of good as a villain. Two years ago, Waleed Khan shielded his classmates from the Taliban. Four years ago, Malala did the same. Today, they’re both determined to not let negativity get to them and keep moving forward. In a few years, Waleed wants to join the armed forces and defend his countrymen. Malala aims to do the same, using the power of words instead. So what exactly are we fighting about? What heinous act had one of these two committed that we refuse to acknowledge her work? On a slightly unrelated note, why are we so hesitant to acknowledge our people’s achievements (unless they’re politicians or chai-waley. Because these people are so great and hero-worthy) until they go through a life-threatening situation? Why wait till they’re shot; why not recognize their potential before it comes to that? Why are people like Shirmeen Obaid-Chinoy deemed to be villains by the majority of our populace? Care to educate me? Because maybe I’m just blind to the obvious truth.
Two years ago, we lost 145 dreamers who believed in a brighter, more progressive future. Don’t let their deaths be in vain. I, for one, am proud that I belong to a country that has a knack for producing so many heroes, in the real sense of the word (that this meme grossly misrepresents). Because our real heroes are all those who dare to speak up, take action and believe. Believe in themselves. Believe in Pakistan.
Pakistan Zindabad.
