BROKEN RECORDS - GROWING INSENSITIVITY TO CONTINUOUS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION

From time to time we should wonder if the chaos of foodstuff shortages is also due to some systematic evil plan to complement the death and destruction by the terrorists.

Ahmadiyya Times | Opinion -
Imran Jattala | November 2, 2009

Silly us - who usually tend to associate ‘breaking records’ with positivity. Someone who scores the highest on a test, or run the fastest in a marathon, or gives the most to a charity, is usually remembered with this term - as in having broken the record for doing a good thing. But times have changed - big time.

On October 16, 2009, Imtiaz Gul wrote for Foreign Policy and ForeignPolicy.com: “In terror-stricken Pakistan, October 15 broke the record for the number of attacks in a day; three dare-devil commando raids on police facilities in  Lahore, the country's second largest city, and one in Kohat, near Peshawar, where a car suicide bombing on a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) building killed about a dozen earlier today.”

And that, too, now seems to be the old news. Since October 15, there has been more ‘broken records’. Such worst terrorists attacks have been carried out in Peshawar, Rawalpindi and elsewhere in Pakistan that the concept of ‘breaking records’, in of itself, seems to be loosing its significance altogether, whether positive or negative.

People of Pakistan have grown insensitive to the going-ons around them. Or, is it because they have other things – better things to be sensitive about? Yes - perhaps.  A sick child in a mother’s lap will keep her from worrying about a stranger who was shredded to pieces several hundred miles away. A hungry family at home will force a father to hold on to his place in a flour and sugar ration line with his dear life.   ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is perhaps most true in Pakistan and in similar war-stricken regions of the world at this time. Look, how life has already returned to ‘normal’ after scores of women had lost their lives in a food distribution line on a Karachi staircase!

From time to time we should wonder if the chaos of foodstuff shortages is also due to some systematic evil plan to complement the death and destruction by the terrorists. A plan by which someone actually expects to benefits from the turmoil; and, for that reason, willfully creates conditions that force people to be insensitive to the turmoil.  Hopefully, we will learn why the country remains in a vicious circle of shortages of flour, sugar, gas, electric, petrol, and, again, back to flour and sugar.

Oh, and, I just remembered; in Islam there is this concept of a 'Dajjal' - an entity with so much influence and sway over the foodstuff distribution that it will feed whomever it will please, and starve those who will fall out of its favor. Go figure!