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February 14, 2014
As the much hyped government Taliban negotiations, make headline news, allegations, counter allegations, conditions and counter conditions, go on, the people are left in a state of disbelief, for talks and bombing, killing, goes on in parallel.
Do the dead and wounded and those who survive care for the outcome, or want as decisive an action as the extremists undertake?
take a breath
deep if you can
or even shallow
as you always do,
feel the pain
the scathing burning
acrid taste of burning
tearing down your throat
smell of flesh, clothes and wood
tinged with explosives
even as you look away
and cover your nose
the throat tells you, you have
just been exposed to
a bomb blast.
and as you run
you stumble and fall
shocked to see
beneath your feet
shattered humanity
bleeding, torn, incinerated
and you stand in shock
and one thought
why us? rises
above all in your mind
and you wonder if the
negotiations touted as the
mother of all talks
will have any effect?
and even if they do
will the result of these
bring back the humanity
you just stepped on
back to life
forgetting
forgiving
reliving life
being able to love
once again?
and you can see the
writing on the wall
seen by all
but those who matter
confused and unsure between
containment,
elimination,
conciliation,
oblivious to the pain,
loss, suffering and feelings
for they have not suffered
hiding behind their high walls
long convoys in duplicates
moving along different routes
jammers, rerouting traffic
and all spent on the
alter of expediency, the
dead, maimed and wounded
unseen, unsung, unheard.
change, for the sake of your people
your mindset, and realize
and eye for an eye
was written for such as these!
February 13, 2014
8:16 pm
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October 26, 2013
i thought i had posted this here when i wrote it, and only today found i have not:
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at fourteen she has
so much to live for
but surely not
a bullet in her head
to show the cowardice
of those who can not
stand up and face
a girl of fourteen
because her stand
in their face
makes them afraid
of an idea that she represents
and which may
cast doubts among
the professed guardians
of a religion to which belonged
aisha the wife, all of malala’s age
nasibah steadfast at ohad
fatima the daughter of muhammad (pbuh)
mother to hassan and hussain, wife of ali
zainab bint ali too among the names
umm e kulsum wife of usman
and a list of brave
learned, revered women
negated due to their deliberate desire
of ignoring history and narrative
of fourteen hundred years and more
taught, recounted and remembered
but they in their narrow interpretations
seeking to create a cult militant
ignorant, short on truth
long on hate of things that
go against their desire of leading
without opposition
neither ijmah nor questioning
where the khalifa got the cloth
to make a full shirt
or having two lamp with oil
from the state and self
for work and leisure.
and all this threatened
by a girl of fourteen
wanting to be like
the women of Islam
taught to her by her teachers
ingrained in her mind by parents
practiced by her daily
seen happening in life
and a bullet to the head
to end the life at fourteen
hanging to life in a hospital
by a tenuous thread
are the perpetrators
so afraid now
that a fourteen year old
that too a girl
becomes a threat to their edifice
made like a house of cards
one voice of a girl
against all odds
October 10, 2012
11:53 hours
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September 23, 2013

My friends were there
Praying to God
My people all bowed
Asking for His blessings
For them and theirs
And for Pakistan
Everyone there was mine
Children mine
Girls mine
Boys mine
Youth mine
Mothers mine
Fathers mine
Old aged mine
All on their knees
Singing hymns
And saying ‘aamin’
Sunday best
Dresses and mood
Happiness and mirth
All of this earth.
And a deafening sound
Heat, pain, fire around
Disbelief, flying metal
Sky rending cries
And another sound
Adding to the din
Limbs and clothes
Shoes and sandals
Sobs and groans
Silence and moans
My people all
Shattered and torn
Asking where if the God
They had just invoked
Another story,
Another lament,
More photo-ops and
Media to comment
Three days to mourn
Then back to work
The usual drudge.
The night falls
Silence reigns
An occasional sob to show
Life exists in deathly throes
To cry the names of one
Who will never return,
Home, left torn.
The question again
Raises its head
Where is the will
To stop this bloodshed
Or do we wait
With bleeding hearts
The dawn of another day
And dread the next news
Of man’s hatred?
Sunday 22nd September 2013
09.45 pm
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June 23, 2013
Standing up against militants of K-P: How my father died for Pakistan
we need to share such stories wherever, by whatever means, and whenever we can – we must show we are not to be cowed down, but will continue to raise our voices against terrorism!
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