On 28th May 2010, two Ahmadiyya worship places were attacked resulting in more than 90 casualties and 108 injuries, but the barbarism didn’t stop there because three days later militants assaulted their way into the intensive care unit where those victims were being treated.
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune
By Muhammad Atif Ilyas | May 5, 2017
It is true that the state is the legitimate possessor of power, and therefore has an inherent licence to exercise it fairly both locally and globally but it does not always stand true to its job description. ‘The greatest crime since World War II has been the US foreign policy’. The words of former US attorney general points to the abuse of that power, and the presence of global institutions like the United Nations do little to establish peace and harmony in the face of such aggressive transnational advances of the powerful on the powerless. Perhaps this is a gloomy portrayal, but it gets gloomier when such power differentials and the fetish to flex them trickle down to the masses of a soft state like Pakistan. A large chunk of the country’s population has always been very vocal about its distaste for the West’s exercise of these power differentials globally to oppress marginalised countries like Palestine and Iraq, as well as India’s local transgressions against the Kashmiris and other Indian Muslims. But, sadly we have forgotten about our own dirty hands with which we are conveniently pointing fingers at countries like India, Israel and the US.
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