Re: Another world record but sad , Mama Qadir’s Long March for Missing Baluchs
**LUMS was pressurized
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From Un-Silenced to Re-SilencedApril 9th, 2015 |
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Let’s again recall Faiz Ahmed Faiz and compare what we are facing today
My salutations to thy sacred streets, O beloved nation!
Where a custom ‘that none shall walk with his head held high’ has been invented
And if a devotee yearns to go on pilgrimage
Then He must walk, with eyes lowered & body crouched in fearThe heart is in a tumultuous wrench at the sight
Of stones and bricks locked away and mongrels breathing freeIn this tyranny that has many an excuse to perpetuate itself
Those crazy few that have nothing but thy name on their lips
Facing those power crazed that both prosecute and judge, wonder
To whom does one turn for protection, from whom does one expect justice?But those whose fate it is to live through these times
Spend their days in thy mournful memoriesA sad incident again forced me to read selected poems of Faiz, if you think deeply situation is not at all different than what Faiz is saying. Today our prestigious and sacred security agency has allegedly forced a private university to call of its event which was a debate for rights of Balcuhi people featuring Mama Qadeer Baloch, This old man and his young boy have travelled more than 2,000 kilometers on foot along with a group of Baloch women and men on their way from Quetta to Islamabad.
The purpose of their non-violent long march was to raise voice against enforced disappearances in Balochistan. They broke the 84-year-old record of Mahatma Gandhi who traveled for 390 kilometers on foot from Ahmadabad to Dandi as part of his famous salt march.
According to concerned faculty of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) couple of officers representing Director General of an Intelligence Agency came into Head of Department’s office looking out for Vice Chancellor who is out of country these days and showed them a letter in which it was clearly mentioned that University cannot carry on with this event so it should be cancelled.
Irony is now even our universities are not safe for such debates where scholars from different backgrounds have discussions about the issues; it’s silly to mention human rights and law violation here.
Banned outfits are operating freely in Pakistan; our brave sons are sacrificing their lives in fight against terrorism and we all support them by all means but why do we have double standards? I do not question agency’s integrity but why there is no protection for minorities? Like for example few days’ back people of Ahmadiyyah community were arrested just for writing verses of Holy Quran in their publications, Leaders of banned outfits like Ahmed Ludhianvi and Hafiz Saeed roam freely doing whatever they want and what about Molvi Abdul Aziz? There is lot of stuff available online which is clear manifestation of banned outfits using hate speech and methods of communication against Shia sect in Quetta and other cities of Baluchistan so why no one takes action? When a news anchor called Mr. Ahmed Ludhianvi a month back and asked all these questions, showed him all video evidence the man was speechless but no one took any action and channels apologized for it afterwards. It means for State, debates on Mama Qadeer Baloch, persecuted Bohris, Ahmadis and Shias are more dangerous topics than growing influence of Hafiz Saeed, Abdul Aziz and Ahmed Ludhianvi. What can you expect where self-confessed murderer Mumtaz Qadri is people’s hero?
On one side we are united against terrorism and yes we are but these double standards by state agencies are un-believable. We can never win this fight against terrorism and extremism by limiting our thoughts and curbing the liberal culture in Pakistan, We should be thankful to God that after years there is a consensus on war against terrorism after so many sacrifices by civil and military both so we should take of this and empower our liberal and enlightened groups instead of limiting their activities especially in educational institutes, LUMS is a place where students from all over Pakistan having diverse backgrounds come to study and once I was there and I can say it loud and clear that there is not a single person who is involved in defaming military or agencies, instead of creating a drama I think military representatives should attend these sessions and they will find out that no one is against them, people will support them and LUMS always welcome military visits and work closely with them.
On basis of little misunderstandings we are making fun of our security agencies and educational institutes.Syed Foaad Hassan is a Lahore based Journalist, Consultant Publicist and Advertiser he tweets at @FoaadHassan](https://twitter.com/FoaadHassan)
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