Live & Let Live

"Look at the shoes your filling. Look at the blood we're spilling.

Look at the world we're killing. The way we've always done before. Look in the doubt we've wallowed.Look at the leaders we've followed. Look at the lies we've swallowed.

And I don't want to hear no more."

A little after the fast broke here in Islamabad a massive suicide truck bomb devastated the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel, killing at least 40 people and wounding another 200. A dozen more are feared dead, trapped inside the rubble including Danish, US, Saudi and citizens from various other countries.

A recent rash of civilian deaths from U.S. airstrikes and military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been feeding widespread outrage and anger in these countries toward the U.S.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned recent U.S. attacks in his country, while the Pakistan government had filed a formal protest. The backlash of these actions to rid their personal problems is being faced by the innocent men & women of these poor developing nations.

To top if all off, the nation's leadership only sits and gives feeble comdemnation statements that anyone least concerned with pakistan would make. When a government official was contacted , instead of accepting the blast as a security lapse, he comforts himself with the thought that no one of "importance" was killed or hurt.

The rest of the people of this country seem like cattle to our honorable leadership. Had that not been the case, concrete steps would've been taken to avoid such a massive loss of life and property. They wage a war which even the US themselves admit is going nowhere, all the while piling the blame on Pakistan. Simply demanding "do more, do more". Pakistan has yet again given sacrifice in the shape of our own citizens being slaughtered by their brethren. How much "more" do you possibly want from us?

Today we have witnessed yet again that Pakistan has suffered the most through cooperation with the US on this so called "War on Terror", which should rather be called "War of Terror" to befittingly describe its impact on our own country and the US Government's image around the world.

We, the Pakistanis, dont know what to do. To mourn the impotence of our government or to condemn US attacks on our soil or to blame the self created " Taliban". For a war that never was ours . We vehemently condemn all forms of terrorism and loss of life. But that is not what this so called "War on Terror" has set out to eliminate. Rather the "War on Terror" is a intelligence-blunder littered mismanaged war to take control of all the worlds strategic assets for the sole benifit of the american agenda of world dominance.

On record , US has always been all-smiles to Pakistan , coining terms like "Non-Nato Ally" just to exploit the current situation , falsly assuring us of not attacking our soil or our sovereignty . We , the Pakistani's, have only one thing to say to "Uncle Sam" or simply "Sam" since we'd never like to consider him as our Uncle.

We want nothing to do with you or your War of Terror. Leave us alone. We hope that atleast these words could affect the mere strands of moral fiber that may be left somewhere in the west. That this message can get to someone who isnt brain-dead or soulless.

We mourn the loss of the lives of our brethren as well as the loss of the lives of foreign citizens, whose protection was our duty once they stepped into Pakistan.

May those responsible, burn in eternal hell.

"War is enjoyable to those who've had no experience of it" - Erasmus

"My hands are tied. For all I've seen has changed my mind, but still the wars go on as the years go by. With no love of God or human rights. 'Cause all these dreams are swept aside, by bloody hands of the hypnotized. Who carry the cross of homicide and history bears the scars of our civil wars"

UPDATE: According to an official statement, the death toll has risen to 53 and the injured at 250. The Czech Ambassador to Pakistan, has also been confirmed as the ones amongst the dead.