As 9/11 is approaching I remember the days of my final
semester in Masters which were too hectic to take off all my
pleasures and enjoyment.When one day suddenly an event
happened which shook not only the USA but the whole world
and we never knew that it would shake Pakistan the most.The
route our university bus used to take from the stop to the
university was Constitution Avenue which had all the foreign
embassies on the way.We all used to enjoy the travel as the
journey was so beautiful from home to Quaid–e-Azam
university which was in Federal Capital City Islambad.The
city which now presents the scene of more like a castle
having security check posts on the main roads.
On Septmeber 12,2001 we were snatched from our beautiful
route to the university.Addendum to this,some weird
incidents started to happen in the bus as the police used to
enter our bus every day and physically checked all our male
fellows.The time we used to spend discussing funny and
sometimes studies stuff was more based on the events started
to happen in Pakistan.
Being a student I never realized that what we faced in the
bus or the change of the routes was herald of so many
horrible events that would take place in PakistanPakistan
witnessed just one suicide attack in 1995 but during last
decade suicide bombers have struck Pakistani targets more
than 290 times, killing at least 4,600 people and injuring
10,000.Many times Pakistan has been termed the most
dangerous country in the world but it is not dangerous for
the world rather its dangerous for its own citizens who are
victims of these terrorist incidents.
The war on terror started in Afghanistan spread to Pakistan
to such an extent that Afghanistan is not witnessing that
much terrorist incidents as Pakistan do.USA started to
target terrorists in Pakistan through drone strikes in 2004
which are still going on.Besides killing terrorists it is
killing citizens as well ,which is infuriating the majority
population of Pakistan.The US has given Pakistan huge amount
of aid in war on terror but the price Pakistan has paid in
this war in form of human sacrifices has outnumbered that
financial support.This year the fruit of war is ripened when
Bin Laden was finally hunt but this hunt has not only cost
US but Pakistan as well.
Pakistan is the surviving victim of 9/11 which is crippled
and getting bruised with the passage of time.Former
President of the USA George W.Bush in his book Decision
Points writes that ‘You have to do what you believe is
right and accept the consequences.’But in case of
Pakistan the consequences are not accepted but imposed.
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I cannot speak for the military or for the government of the United States. But as an individual, empathetic and passionate, my heart goes out to all those who were effected.
As can be said for anything, they must do the best they can with the information that they have. That is not an excuse or a scapegoat, simply a perspective. It is too often flawed, costly, and imposed, but many see no other alternative. The cost of inaction, in their eyes, outweighs the cost of action.