Lahore keeps its resolve: A perspective on the Police Training School attack
Lahore stood firm as it saw its patience and resolve against terrorism being challenged again by a hand full of armed lunatics who attacked the unarmed Police Trainees at the Manawan Police Training School near the city.
Police celebrates after re-gaining control of the Manawan Police Training School from terrorists
Image Source: BBC News
The eight-hour operation against heavily armed militants ended in success but with several casualties and injuries, some of them critical. Today, we still survived an attack on our resolve and Lahore stands proud of its still alive spirit.
I guess it is too obvious for many to realize who really is behind all this. The fact is there is no singular element. We have had foreign sponsorships of extremist forces inside Pakistan from many countries, neighboring and non-neighboring both. And yes we have domestic problems of our own too.
The need of the hour is, however, to think how best can we respond and fight these forces. Identification of sponsors or hidden hands is important but more crucial is the need to find a remedy for this cancer.
United, we should mentally and morally prepare ourselves for a war with whoever stands, talks or acts against our country, our people and our society. We should not and will not tolerate ideologies of extremism, terrorism, inhumanity, and hatred. We are humans, and yes, proud Pakistanis; Muslims or otherwise – but sorry, we are not and will never become or aligned ourselves with terrorists.
Agreed on all counts and my views expressed in your previous post.
Only objection is the phrase “Proud Pakistani Muslims” cant there by ‘Proud Pakistani Non-Muslims”. Can’t we be just “Proud Pakistani’s”? What about the Christians, Hindus and Parsis etc that live among us? Can’t they be proud of their country and feel a sense of belonging towards it? Or should they all just immigrate?
We shall prevail, we shall put up a fight, we have no other choice. We are a proud nation and we shall not bow down in the face of tyranny.
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Another attach due to lack of security in the city! we have not forgotten
attack of terrorist on SriLankan Team and their new statement was we will
come back to Pakistan to play cricket but such incident can raise issue of
security concerns for foreigners. As we all believe in Allah as Muslims,
we are not afraid of such attacks but we must have high security in the
city so such incident not happens. Though Pakistan is paying heavy price
in war against terrorism and USA and Terrorist make war ground Afghanistan
and Pakistan. The terrorism is now moving in Lahore city to disturb and
this all happening when Mr.Zardari is fighting on power struggle with
Mr.Nawaz. While Mr.Musharaf and others watching the happenings of their
blunders done to people of Pakistan.
As we all believe in Allah as Muslims, we are not afraid of such attacks
We say we believe in Allah, but we do nothing about those who misuse Allah’s name and message (except, you know, post or comment in blogs). Who of us is willing to contradict or correct a khatib in a mosque? Where are our beliefs then? Is our fear of Allah weaker than our fear of what the neighbors will do to us if we take a stand?
but we must have high security in the city so such incident not happens.
Who should we depend on for security? Aren’t the police, the civil service, the judiciary, the military, the politicians — aren’t they all but a reflection of general society?
Until and unless we recognize the inherent violence in Islam (euphemistically called as jihad), there can never be peace
in Pakistan. Islam is a complete failure and sooner we
recognize it, the better.
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@AK Why bring Mush into this, if we have supported him when the radicals lanched their attack (lal Masjid), then he would have delivered. Instead we were disuaded by the propagandists and welcomed back known thieves and incompetant fools to lead us again.
What the zealots could not achieve in nine attempts our media did it in less than an year.