Rulers of Pakistan led by US President George W. Bush can rightly be held responsible for making this world as hell. Now innocent people mostly women and children are facing imminent threat, but they are still playing the power game. When their power game will end no one knows. It is not clear as who is ruling Pakistan. There is great confusion.
According to a comment of Dawn newspaper, as Pakistan’s security forces step up their military operation in the tribal areas, unsurprisingly the civilian population caught in the crossfire has been fleeing from the war-stricken zone. Although precise numbers are not available, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are believed to have been affected. With the war in Fata and Swat assuming a protracted character — Swat joined the fray in November last year whereas Waziristan had already become a battleground a year earlier — the displacement of local populations is becoming a way of life in the region that has periodically experienced the influx and exodus of refugees since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. But this does not minimise the human dimension of the phenomenon in any way. While war brings death, injury and destruction of property, the displacement that follows inflicts its own miseries on the people. Made homeless and deprived of their livelihood, the refugees have to brave physical hardship as well as the emotional trauma of having their social and family support system devastated.
Muhammad Khurshid, a resident of Bajaur Agency, tribal areas situated on Pak-Afghan border is journalist by profession. He contributes articles and news stories to various online and print newspapers. His subject matter is terrorism. He is also heading Voice For Peace working against terrorism in tribal areas. The aim of the Voice For Peace is restoration of peace in Bajaur Agency, tribal areas and whole world.
According to latest reports, more than 200 people have been killed in the fighting in Kurram Agency, tribal areas situated on Pak-Afghan border. There is no respite in sight as the rulers of Pakistan are still busy in power game. Who will come to save millions of tribesmen, who are facing immediate threat to their lives?
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Muhammad Khurshid (304 articles, 31 quicklinks, 197 diaries, 161 comments)
on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 11:54:27 AM
"Lives of Millions are in Danger, but Rulers are busy in Power Game."
Sadly, your headline says it all, Muhammad, exactly. Not only in your country, though that is one of the most dangerous places at this time, but all around the world, in many places, the same reality is playing out - the one you have written above. I wish it were not so.
Again, "Lives of Millions are in Danger, but Rulers are busy in Power Game."
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Aurora (0 articles, 57 quicklinks, 22 diaries, 508 comments)
on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 2:26:18 PM
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