terror comes to lahore

Now I’m no authority on bomb blasts, I have never witnessed one, but I’m thinking when I’m awakened by sounds of two back to back explosions that rattle my windows nearly off the hinges, its safe to assume that the explosions occurred much too close for comfort. Though the media claims that the explosions occurred in locations too far from where i live to make my windows rattle, rattle they did. Which leads me to believe that our hopelessly biased media now in the firm grip of our hopelessly insecure government has been exposing only the convenient truth. There was one mention on some international news channel of a bomb going off in Defence as well which made a lot more sense to me considering my own experience but i can no longer find any news on TV or online along those lines. Reasons for the cover up, if one exists, aren't hard to imagine. It would be humiliating for our armed forces to accept the fact that someone blasted his/her way to heaven in their own backyard and if I was a narcissist dictator i would probably want to keep that bit of info from influencing public opinion. Screw the fact that the truth deserves to be known and other such noble rhetoric which the fabric of humanity is crafted from. Furthermore, acknowledging that a bomb or bombs did actually manage to go off in the mighty DHA would lead to wide-spread panic seeing how DHA is considered the most 'secure' residential area of Lahore where even birds fear to shit without the army's approval. Fact of the matter is that any anti-government agent with a moderately able brain would want to disrupt the strongholds of the government which he/she is rebelling against. With dear Mush refusing to do the honorable thing by stepping down after the spanking in the ballots i think its safe to assume that the thin veneer of safety us denizens of the army controlled areas were wrapped in is now torn. Irrespective of what the agenda behind these blasts is, common sense dictates that wide spread distrust needs to be created amongst the masses against the government and the only city spared of such heinous motives is now fully in the sights of those who mean to gain control. The authorities are being targeted; I don't think anyone will refute that. Security is non existent, that too is irrefutable. From a man getting close enough to BB to take pot shots at her to news of bombs being found 'just in time' outside Defense beacon house, the shit has officially hit the fan and the umbrella the government was supposed to be holding is no where in sight. I've been harping on about impending civil war amongst friends, from whom I do not fear persecution, for a while now and it seems that my grim premonition is unfortunately on its way to coming true. It is true that no nation truly becomes great without shedding a certain amount of its own blood; just like an individual, nations also need epiphanies to mend their ways. I would've hoped that the horrors suffered in forming this country would serve as a sound enough epiphany for all of time to come but it seems we are too shameless to learn from past mistakes. Instead we have grown up to be evil, listless and confused; forgetting not only that this country was founded to allow for religious freedom but the edicts of the religion itself; choosing extremes that either desecrate the religion or shun it altogether and in the process building a society so polarized that an amicable solution seems impossible. We have brought ourselves to a position where being targeted is inevitable considering how easy it us for an outsider to cause rifts between us. There is no solidarity, no sense of responsibility, no honesty, no trust and no love between us as citizens on the roads we drive like no one else exists and even if we acknowledge teh existence of other people we believe they have no right to be there at the same time as us. Our children are so fascinated by the societies and customs of other countries that they don't even have time enough to fully dress themselves anymore. English accents are improving but the ability to form a sentence in Urdu is becoming extinct. We are in effect conforming to what the west desired all along. And though it may not be that bad a thing we cannot ignore the fact that our way of life, our understanding of it, our virtue and our perception has been replaced by those who we ourselves have deemed better than us.
For a country like this, for a people so lacking in faith and in confidence is it not judicious to suffer like this, to live in fear and distrust? We had a confused identity to begin with, Muslims who were so entrenched in Hindu customs that we weren't all that Muslim anyway, now we have no identity at all, just a remembered fascination to a religion which we only abide to in passing, like a daily chore or use as an excuse for the most heinous acts imaginable. The hypocrisy of it all is mind boggling. On a daily basis I’m blown away by the ability of Pakistani people to lie, to deceive and in the same breath praise Allah as if we gave a damn about what he had to say.
We may never really know exactly what went wrong where but its safe to say that the people of Pakistan have failed the country, over and over without remorse or guilt. The bombings today, therefore, aren't shocking, or unprecedented or out of the blue. They are simply an inevitable consequence of our inability to be human, to be Muslim, to be Pakistani. Its shameful and its sad and many will pretend to give a damn but no one, not even me, will do a god damned thing because really who has the time? There's a great movie on starplus and Bipasha is gyrating like a pro stripper in the same sexy top my occasional fuck-buddy at LUMS wore to the concert. Oh wait, there's a drama on Indus where some Pakistani chick has outdone Bips move for move. Isn't it amazing how slutty our women can be if only they are paid enough? I wonder how much you need to pay to have her as a fuck-buddy? And to think we put sexual extremes beyond our supposedly Muslim sensibilities. Or maybe I will watch Arnold kicking ass in the movie on HBO, or better yet I will just stay tuned to GEO for my daily fill of violence.

Its stock-taking time, people. Wake up and smell the C4, its about to go off in our face.