The grandiose pictures emanating from Gaza\nshake the spine of the viewers\u2014Muslims and non Muslims alike. Charred and raged\nbodies, blood bathed babies and faint cries surging from leathery and helpless\nlips of sisters and mothers require steely heart to watch and withstand the\nagonies. Amid relentless sultry heat and trying Ramadan, tears of the mourners seem\nto have dried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this backdrop, the desperate cries\nreverberating from Aqsa, Qibla e awal, shook the souls of millions across\nPakistan. As a last resort, the minarets of Al Aqsa echoed with the cries of\nthe thousands of helpless Palestinians calling for Pakistan and Pakistan army\nto come to assist them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These heart wrenching cries, crossed over\nthe power hungry Egyptian Army. These forlorn cries for help also flew over the\nwealthy sheiks, sharpening their swords to secure their interests in already\nbleeding Iraq, and Syria. These yowls also oozed passed the nuclear ambitious\nIran. These shouts for help also boomed across Turkey, where Tyab Ardagan is\nbattling for his survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, but God knows what thoughts moved the minds\nof the mourning Palestinians amassed around Aqsa that they gave a bewailing call to Pakistani people and Pakistan Army.\nMay be the frantic slogans soaring to sky at the time of the creation of Pakistan,\nPakistan ka matlab kia la ela ha ill Allah resonated in their minds. May be the\nbrave sentence spoken by tha great Quaid calling Israel the illegitimate son of\nthe West reverberated in their mind. Or the heroics of our air force pilots\nflashed through their minds. Yet another possibility could be that the epoch\nmaking moments of 28 May 1998 re-echoed in their imagination that thousands gave\na piercing cry to Pakistan for help against the barbaric onslaught of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reason for call could be any.\nNevertheless, the reality of response to this call is even more harsh and\ndistressing. With a heavy heart I want to bring before this excruciating fact\nto the people of Gaza that your this call for help is nothing more than a vain\ncry in the desert. Everyone knows that you are bleeding profusely and not so\nfor the first time. But no one would come to heal your wounds, dry your tears\nand console your mourning mothers and sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gaza, I know my sentences would aggravate\nyour wounds, well up more tears and wither the already wailing faces of the children.\nBut I do not have a heart to sooth you with false promises and hollow\nconsolation. Pitiably, you yourself have to dig the graves, and bury the coal\nburnt martyrs. My heart bleeds to speak that you yourself have to lift the\ninjured and bandage them with the rags, if available and seek the divine cure\nfor them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, you called us-Pakistanis to bear a\nhand. But, dear ailing Gaza, your, our beloved Pakistan is itself bleeding. We\nare caught up in a vicious internal quagmire. We ourselves are at throat with\none another. Our dear army is fighting a war at various fronts-both against\nexternal and internal foes. Moreover, it is not possible for us to deviate from\nthe designs of the USA-the same USA which supports Israel, assists us also. In\nfact we are the third biggest recipient of the US aid after Israel and Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, our political leadership has its own\nlimitations and preferences. It cannot afford to earn the ire of the Americans.\nEven it has stopped mentioning the Kashmir which is also bleeding like you are,\nfor it irks the Indians and Americans alike. It also affects their trade ties\nwith the Indians. After all one has to fix his priorities. You might remember\nthat same call for help was made from Abu Ghareeb also, but no one had the\nspine to help those who were humiliated and maimed by the Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, the people of Pakistan would babble\nthe prayers, earnestly for you. They would also throng the streets and roads\nwith banners. Besides, they would dry their throats to condemn the wild\nbrutality of the Israelis. Aside from that they would burn the effigies of\nIsrael-the illegitimate. But, but, these voices of sincere Pakistanis won\u2019t be\nable to stir the conscience of those whose decisions actually matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the holy month of Ramadan and the\nnumber of martyrs is on the rise. Don\u2019t wail dear Gaza. The angels of heaven\nthemselves would come to receive these martyrs. Heaven itself will heal thy\nwounds, dry thy tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The grandiose pictures emanating from Gaza shake the spine of the viewers\u2014Muslims and non Muslims alike. Charred and raged bodies, blood bathed babies and faint cries surging from leathery and helpless lips of sisters and mothers require steely heart to watch and withstand the agonies. Amid relentless sultry heat and trying Ramadan, tears of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muslim-world","tag-gaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sliklight.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}