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More loyal than the King
Ali Ashraf Khan
An ISAF air strike in Afghanistan killed two insurgents and three Afghan children, a girl and two boys while collecting fire wood. This is the news brought to us by Pakistani print media without any comment. This is the same media which is going overboard because of the wounding of one girl Malala, mostly forgetting about the two others, less prominent victims, Shazia and Kainaat, by Pakistani Taliban operating from Afghanistan. Now while the Malala case has resulted in mass protest and International attention there is no comment about the death of those three children by foreign occupying troops. The question that is coming to mind automatically is what is the difference between those three Afghan children and the incident wounding Malala? Isn’t one child’s life as precious as any other’s? Obviously not; at least not in the eyes of the supporters of the Western media campaign highlighting the Malala case to the exclusion of all others and their Pakistani followers. Nobody is concerned about young Aurangzeb who was injured when a funeral procession was attacked and he is on ventilator since one year his brother has no means to spend thousands daily on medicine etc.It is a matter of shame for all those who are harping on foreign tunes in eulogizing need of education in FATA while thousands of innocent girls and boys are forced into beggary on traffic signals in Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad. The difference is that Malala is used by the US to push Pakistan towards a military campaign in NWA while nobody is bothered about what NWA has to do with Swat. This is another sorry example how Pakistani media and ‘civil society’ allows itself to be used by the West.
—Karachi
More loyal than the King
Ali Ashraf Khan
An ISAF air strike in Afghanistan killed two insurgents and three Afghan children, a girl and two boys while collecting fire wood. This is the news brought to us by Pakistani print media without any comment. This is the same media which is going overboard because of the wounding of one girl Malala, mostly forgetting about the two others, less prominent victims, Shazia and Kainaat, by Pakistani Taliban operating from Afghanistan. Now while the Malala case has resulted in mass protest and International attention there is no comment about the death of those three children by foreign occupying troops. The question that is coming to mind automatically is what is the difference between those three Afghan children and the incident wounding Malala? Isn’t one child’s life as precious as any other’s? Obviously not; at least not in the eyes of the supporters of the Western media campaign highlighting the Malala case to the exclusion of all others and their Pakistani followers. Nobody is concerned about young Aurangzeb who was injured when a funeral procession was attacked and he is on ventilator since one year his brother has no means to spend thousands daily on medicine etc.It is a matter of shame for all those who are harping on foreign tunes in eulogizing need of education in FATA while thousands of innocent girls and boys are forced into beggary on traffic signals in Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad. The difference is that Malala is used by the US to push Pakistan towards a military campaign in NWA while nobody is bothered about what NWA has to do with Swat. This is another sorry example how Pakistani media and ‘civil society’ allows itself to be used by the West.
—Karachi
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