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| India-Pakistan |
| The aesthetics of terror |
| 2016-03-30 |
| [DAWN] A SUNDAY evening in spring at a park in the middle of a crowded city; the squeals of children, laughter, joy and general merriment. It was what terror wishes most to mar with its cruel infliction of death, and it is indeed where terror struck. Even as Pakistain’s album of horrors lies full, this Sunday past brought another lurid page, another tragedy to add to what is an achingly long list. When the bodies were counted, and so many were so small, more than 70 lay dead and over 200 were maimed, some undoubtedly likely to perish in the days to come. According to news reports, many families perished in halves or wholes; one big brood visiting from Sanghar in Sindh lost eight family members. Even before the bodies were counted, the lists of injured and dead posted on hospital bulletin boards for distraught relatives to read over and over, there was a claim of responsibility. The Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splintergroup that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... , a splinter group of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, claimed it had carried out the attack, releasing not only a picture of the jacket wallah but a promise of their own video of the attack. Their targets, they said, had been those celebrating Easter; the fact that they were families and children did nothing to temper the death sentence that the group wished to deliver. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Too bad no one in the "main stream media" reads Dawn, or the 'Burg. Those folks all 'know' the violence had nothing to do with 'religion', it was probably a protest for West-Bank Settlements, or maybe Indian Kashmiri aspirations. Nothing of interest here. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-03-30 14:31 |