Some residents of North Waziristan who have passed through this long nightmare ask as to why state’s institutions remained dysfunctional to control the situation before reaching this point. “I don’t know why our security forces could not expel wrong people from our area in 2007. At that time operation was launched but situation did not change. Now once again people have been forced to leave homes to start operation against wrong people,” Faisal Hussain, a 10th grader from Mirali, said. “I can’t believe that our army is powerless that it can’t crush a small number of people,” he said. Abdul Aziz, who belongs to Khaisoor village, has the same dilemma. He piled complaints against the army, but did not utter a single word against militants, who were the root cause of the problem. He seemed to have grievances and some questions which were difficult to answer. “Don’t we have human rights? Is UN not aware of what we had been going through? The problem is UN and international media has kept mum over our situation,” said Mr Aziz as his voice grew hoarse with anger mixed with pain and helplessness. “If I tell the truth, then neither I nor you can live alive in this world,” said the elderly man drenched with sweats as he waited in the queue for ration. He refused to share any of his agonies as if he had lost faith in the all that stood for human rights and freedom of expression.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:27:36 +0000
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