Comments on: Karachi Bleeds http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2010/02/karachi-bleeds/ Your Hotline to Pakistan Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Farieha http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2010/02/karachi-bleeds/comment-page-1/#comment-2388 Farieha Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:51:06 +0000 http://www.newslinemagazine.com/?p=13297#comment-2388 We're presented with one excuse after another for what happens in the country. The same questions will be asked again that are asked each time such an incident takes place: Who's responsible? The police, the government, mafias, political parties, sectarian elements? Security lapse? Planted bomb or suicide attack? And who will answer these questions, questions unending inquiries have never been able to answer and there seems to be no hope that they ever will. What are we to make of this incident? The Muharram 10 blast is considered by many to be a cover for burning down the markets. But what of today's attack? This, too, quite evidently, was a well thought-out plan. First the bus was attacked, and then the hospital where the injured for such incidents are taken, and that too the hospital's ER. Then there were reports of routes to Civil hospital - the alternate to Jinnah for such situations - being cordoned off by the police, forcing ambulances to take an alternate route which is longer and takes more time. What does today's incident signify, apart from the sectarian colour it is bound to take on? We’re presented with one excuse after another for what happens in the country. The same questions will be asked again that are asked each time such an incident takes place: Who’s responsible? The police, the government, mafias, political parties, sectarian elements? Security lapse? Planted bomb or suicide attack? And who will answer these questions, questions unending inquiries have never been able to answer and there seems to be no hope that they ever will.

What are we to make of this incident? The Muharram 10 blast is considered by many to be a cover for burning down the markets. But what of today’s attack? This, too, quite evidently, was a well thought-out plan. First the bus was attacked, and then the hospital where the injured for such incidents are taken, and that too the hospital’s ER. Then there were reports of routes to Civil hospital – the alternate to Jinnah for such situations – being cordoned off by the police, forcing ambulances to take an alternate route which is longer and takes more time. What does today’s incident signify, apart from the sectarian colour it is bound to take on?

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