OSAMA'S GHOST REVISITS PAKISTANI TOWN

The benign and euphemestic sound of the morning prayer offered to Allah had hardly died down on friday that a powerful devastating sound left so many people with scars deep enough to heal ever in their lives. The Pakistani town, Charsadda, was doomed to be ripped apart when two sucide bombers blew themeselves up amid large throngs of people. The deadly act by fanatics was supposedly carried out to avenge Osama's death in Pakistan in an operation launched by the American authorities. The very country which provided shelter to the dreaded terrorist for almost five long years became the first victim of reprisal in which almost 70 federal constable recruits and 20 innocent civilians were killed and more than hundred were grievously injured. Now, it is upto the people of Pakistan to mount pressure on its government to desist from providing shelter to notorious criminals and terrorists who are inimical to mankind and act devastatingly without affilitation to any religion and country. This is quite unfortunate that Pakistan remained indifferent towards the democratic revolutions in several West Asian and North African countries and its people could not stand in uprising against their government, in line with the people of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. The horrendous act of terror on friday in a Pakistani town should work as a catalysing factor for its people to unite themeselves against their government with regard to its dubious policies on terrorism.This becomes imperative as the stakes in Pakistan are far more bigger than in countries which witnessed revolution in the past days.The civill society, press and people of Pakistan has a great role to play to untangle the crossed wires of religious fanaticism and ruthless voilence in which the country seems to be stuck. The Pakistani government seems to be more concerned about the lives of some dreaded terrorists hiding there than the lives of its common people. This became reflective when the establishment beefed up security along the border with India to ward off any possibility of a similar operation like America, in search of terrorists wanted in India. But it left its internal security unattended just to die its people in a grisly manner.This speaks volumes about the callow complicity of the Pakistani government in a war against humanity. My great unshaken faith in people of Pakistan and the holy religion they follow say that not far are the days when the pious call to ALLAH would be strong enough to weaken and strangle the jarring and sinister noise of terrorism and non-sense violence. AMIN!!! Vashistha Ray