He Did Say That!

It was a long absence. A year, to be exact. But, like a nightmare, it seemed a lot lot longer.

I was in what has lately become one of the worst countries on earth. May be the worst. Every bad thing that could happen to a country did happen to it in this one year.

To begin with Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. Her husband claimed he knew the names of the assassins but was not telling.

He did say that.

He himself and his cronies such as Rehman Malik are the beneficiaries. Go figure. No wonder he knows the names of those who murdered his wife.

He is polluting the place where Muhammad Ali Jinnah once sat.

The resources of the country and the money shamelessly borrowed from whoever is willing to lend, no matter under what conditions, are being plundered with nonchalant callousness and indecent haste.

Wolves in various shapes and garbs are pouncing at this country from inside and out with horrible ferociousness.

Bombs are exploding everywhere including the mosques and Christians are being burned alive. Suicide bombers are prowling the streets looking for targets.

Power outages are so long and so frequent and prices of commodities so high that the citizens have become sickos and are committing suicides, but after they kill their loved ones.

Army is bombarding and pounding its own people indiscriminately. Tens of millions of people have been turned out of their homes and are living in squalid conditions in makeshift camps.

I don't think I can even begin to count all the atrocities that are going on in there.

In short, we can safely call Pakistan of today a tome of horrors so full and complete that, it seems, not a single horror has been left out.