Our government has banned even a documentary made about that Den of Terrorists. While military is taking action against terrorists all around the country, it also has allowed these terrorists to spread venom give threats of violence for anyone opposing their agenda. They say this documentary shows negative image of the country.
In such a case, it is plain hypocrisy if any government official issues any statement condemning this murder. Because they are responsible for this murder due to deliberately allowing this Evil to foster.
Khurram Zaki: The voice that spoke for the dead - Blogs - DAWN.COM
SULEMAN AKHTAR
“Dead men can’t talk,” Malik Ishaq — leader of militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi — told Fida Hussain Ghalvi and three other men who testified against him during a trial in the presence of a civil judge.
Ishaq was wrong. When the living refuse to speak, the dead talk. They really do.When language bows down, silence speaks.
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Khurram Zaki
was one of very few who made us pause to hear the voices of the dead.
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He dedicated his life to keeping these voices resounding. He would light a candle, post a Facebook status, take up the megaphone at some square and appeal to us, arrange a sit-in, hold up a mirror to the authorities, etc.
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Khurram Zaki was in the media limelight alongside his comrades when they managed to get a case registeredagainst Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz for inciting hatred against Shia Muslims. He was very vocal about his views against Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and other militant groups that have been targeting the Shia community in Pakistan in the recent past. A faction of the Pakistani Taliban, the Hakeemullah group, claimed responsibility for the attack saying Zaki had been targeted for his stance against radical Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Aziz.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar gave a statement in the National Assembly in December last year that Abdul Azizcould not be arrested as no cases were registered against him. He was heavily criticised afterwards for misleading the House.
The statement speaks volumes about the resolve of the state to counter the menace of extremism and militancy. This is exactly the state of affairs Zaki was trying to challenge from within.
He criticised the implementation of the National Action Plan in Karachi time and again, pointing out the inconsistencies and unfairness in its implementation. He spoke out against the recent killing of MQM worker Aftab Ahmed in Rangers’ custody. He had always been vocal about the inaction of the state against certain militant groups and their leaders.
Zaki shouldered Sabeen Mahmud’s coffin when she was killed in April last year. Sabeen, like Zaki, was a voice for the voiceless. She had to be silenced.
And now it was Zaki’s turn. They kill those who speak about the killed ones; and then kill those who speak about the killed ones who spoke about the killed ones before them. Some call it violence, some call it militancy. It is neither. It is madness, a vicious cycle of raw madness that is Pakistan’s new normal.
Zaki would not have been killed if he wasn’t a brave man. He would still be alive if it were not for the tales of the dead he told us.
Who will dare to tell Khurram Zaki’s tale?