comes around! It is a wretched day indeed for Pakistan, sorrow followed by double sorrows. While the TTP is not letting the burning city of Karachi lick its wounds before it inflicts upon its hapless citizens volleys of bullets and bombs and kills yet more innocents. Sanaullah Haq, a Pakistani prisoner in a Jammu jail is 'allegedly' attacked by an inmate in a dramatically similar way as Sarabjit Singh was, and has reportedly received severe head injuries, is now in a Chandigarh hospital in a coma, on a ventilator fighting for his life.
The lesson we do not seem to learn time and again is this - all our actions have equal and opposite reactions - simple law of physics apply to our communal interactions also. When we set out to destroy Sarabjit Singh did the powers that are in this magnificent land of ours forget for an instance the peril they would be putting thousands of Pakistanis and Muslims living in Indian jails and freely in India? did they not ponder on the hatred, the wrath, the venom that would spew against these hapless people? No. Of course, not. Why should or ought the Government, or want for a better word the powerful, think of such minor consequences? They only consider the action to be taken at that precise moment, what the implications would be of such an action is beyond their domain of 'duties' or 'responsibilities' as they would try and explain later on.
What the implications be of an attack on Sarabjit Singh or any Indian prisoner in a Pakistani jail shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone especially to those who traverse the halls of power and are privy to state secrets. Yet, the attack was allowed or it happened due to lapse of security, or was planned by the intelligence agencies and the whole incident dealt with shamefully. The consular access initially denied, he wasn't allowed to be flown to India for medical treatment in his own country amongst his family, and he finally died without his family and kin. It is a sad affair.
Now the tables have turned. And a little too soon. Sanaullah Haq is lying injured in a hospital apparently as a 'revenge' beating for killing Sarabjit Singh and many other incarcerated prisoners in India are fearing for their fate. The pleas being made by our government are a carbon copy of what their Indian counterparts were requesting a couple of days earlier; access, repatriation to the home country all on the name of humanity - ha! what humanity? the same one that we used to kill Sarabjit and denied him all the basic humane rights that we now beg for? what are we made of?
I plead the Indian government to be the bigger person here and not follow in our steps and let Sanaullah Haq come to Pakistan and perhaps slap us on our faces which we so rightly deserve.
I see posts on social media sites condemning people like Asma Jehangir and Najam Sethi for mourning the death of Sarabjit Singh, are we insane? have we lost our souls or sold it to the devil himself that we must rejoice at the murder of a man, whoever he may be, and especially when he is not yet proven guilty as charged and suffered in jail for long 23 years. We are indeed a rotten lot. We should bow down our heads in shame and then mourn some more for what we are doing to ourselves and others, to our children and to people who come in this country, and all too often in the name of religion, in the name of the motherland and freedom....
Whither these lofty values and morals?? whither zeniths of excellence and justice; for here all I see are pits of waste and dung, squalid vapors suffocating lungs for it stinks of fresh blood, cries of mothers for sons fallen.... sorrow followed by double sorrow.... this country is seeing the beginning of its end in the hands of none other than its own people.
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