Exams over but lot's on the mind...
Exams finished on Friday. They were good and I am happy. I am free after such a long time. It wasn't the exams; they occupied me for just two weeks. Before that we had this IT project to work on and it wasnt such an easy task. Our presentation went real bad. Actually it wasnt even a presentation, the way one guy put it but anyways I am through it and everything is well.
Lots has been happening around here in Pakistan. As if that's news...??We are, afterall a very dynamic nation, huh?? If it isn't politics, then it is rioting around the cities. What was supposed to be a protest against the cartoons published in a country miles away, turned out to be an opportunity to reveal our darkest secrets. Pakistan's worst moments. It is difficult to say actually. We have had so many of them. But many say it has been a long time since they saw such mayhem.
Kids burnt down their on city. A cartoon rightly showed a man axing off his own foot. There were stones, sticks, chaos all around. Who were these people adamant on bringing their own house down. Videos showed kids pulling off car doors...and having fun. They burnt motorcycles, the vauable asset of some poor man. They brought doen businesses, the bread and butter for another family. They jumped on this cavalry gun, the "pride" of Pakistan. They showed the world what really lies beneath "enlightened moderation", beneath the "soft image", beneath the merriment of basant, beneath a "booming" economy, beneath the "all's well" jargon. They did what the Balochi insurgents have not been able to do all these months.
Shahid Masood rightly, questioned the charge on the religous parties. Anyone could tell, he said, that these kids werent driven by religous zeal or fervor. He talked about how when you try locking a cat in some room, it attacks you as the last alternative. He wondered whether these rioters were those cats.
Was it really so much about blasphemous cartoons or about some hungry belly? Was it the prophet's love or some vengeful lust? Was it so much about this company's connection to Norway or about the expensive, "in" mobile sets that the "haves" brandish everyday past the "have-nots"? Was it so much about the government's relatively mum response to the Danish government or about the walls that they have erected between themselves and the society? Was it really the passion for the most revered personality in the muslim world or frustration at the incraeasing disparity within the society? Was it the expression of the spiritual bond between the average muslim and the Prophet (P.B.U.H) or the reeling dynamics of a social order gone berserk?
posted by shhhnuff duff @ 4:25 AM
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