So Kasab is finally a Pakistani!

So Kasab is finally a Pakistani!

Since 26/11 India has been blaming Pakistan for the attack. Even before any evidences were released India knew who to blame. Fair enough! But when there are terror attacks in Pakistan who do we blame...! the answer is straight forward our fellow Pakistani's, ethnic groups, political party members, general public and so on..! There arent any members other than 'us' involved in the whole process of the blame game.

As i was sitting and watching the whole coverage on BBC for the two or three days after the attack not once did i hear or see any internal voilence in India. Infact i saw people condenming such an attack, and not once did any one of them even said it could be their own people. I started to wonder what had happened if such an attack would have been in Pakistan? imagine for a while.. an attack where 150 people are killed and then 100 people are killed on top of it with more then 20 cars being set on fire by the 'locals' of Pakistan in protests!! I guess a day or two later i heard from someone there was voilence in Karachi and what for? Well i can't still get my head around with the reason but it was between the ethnic groups. Many a cars were set on fire, 28 people were killed with 150 people injured and then i heard people were scared to sit in the buses and use public transport of the fear that 'some' men would try to put glue in their eyes and cut their ears. But the question is what did we do for dat? Nothing. What did we do for the Islamabad attack? or for the Hyderi Masjid attack? or for the Benazir's assasination... the answer remains the same.

A week or two later, Geo which i think is one of the most manipulative media's Pakistan is blessed with, out of a blue just aired a video sowing their visit to Faridkot with some villagers speaking out that they had actually seen Kasab sometime back and that he wanted to go for jihad. It just boiled my blood. I was upset i wanted to scream! How can a media do that to their country? If geo was so sure that it was Faridkot and they were the people why did they not consult with the government or the authorities. Or ok i understand they wanted to utter the truth if it was the 'truth' but then, does truth comes out risking your national integrity? At a time when there are talks of Pakistan being under attack, can't the media get responsible enough and either act positive for the sake and benefit of the poor Pakistani's or atleast stay neutral and wait until 'officialy' such a remark is released rather than just seeking their TRP's and computing gains their channel will get if they air such a news.

The whole world's media was showing the dual side of Pakistan. Where on one side the Officials claiming Kasab is not a Pakistan and Geo, a popular Pakistani news channel claiming he actually is one.

After a few days i saw it on facebook a picture of the people of Faridkot protesting against GEO that the clipping showed on GEO was not actually Faridkot.

Yesterday i saw a headline on CNN IBN, Pakistan's divided answers! They showed on one sphere, Officials claiming he was not a Pakistani and giving remarks such as 'how can he be a Pakistani when he speaks hindi' and then another Official 'Pakistan's National security advisor' Mr durrani claiming that he was a Pakistani! The next day Geo shows, Mr Durrani has been sacked by the Prime Minister for uttering such remarks while on the other hand Pakistan finally accepting that Kasab is a Pakistani.

I have just one question to ask... what does that represent us as? That we are not together, not on the fronts when it comes to terrorism, not when it comes when we become victims, not when we are on the road and want our car to be the first one to reach its destination the quickest, not when we want our country to develop, and not on the fact that we should atleast call a meeting and decide what to say to the international media and on how to settle issues with our own media!

Today finally the Pakistan's officials accepted after much a hype and drama that Kasab was a Pakistani. Along with GEO very haughtily claiming that they were indeed the first one to find out about the truth about Kasab, i just began to wonder if all of us Pakistani's have this inherited quality that 'we are right and you are wrong' and 'that we know better than you do?' .....is it just about that. And finally one other inherit quality that we have, which reflects in the statement made by a Pakistani official earlier 'Even if he is a Pakistani, it would'nt effect Pakistan' ... and guess what??!!! He is now.. Finally!