Operation Silence – a year passes by

Dust, smoke, gunfire, screams, blood ------ what followed? SILENCE which pierced the hearts, even of those who had vociferously supported the operation before; silence that made everyone of us numb and deprived us of the courage to raise our voices against it; silence that provided perfect shelter to the perpetrators, that to this date no inquiry could take place; deadly silence, that hid the figures of casualties and countless still remain missing!
Was it a befitting punishment? Was their crime so grave? Were they ever given a right to court trial? Were they given a fair chance of negotiations? Did they get the sympathies of the human rights commissions, who can’t keep quite even at the death sentence of brutal killers? Well, to be impartial, the answer to all the questions above is an emphatic NO. This is a country where chain killers remain on the loose, where Mr. 10% becomes the practical head of state, where rapists and bandits are almost never punished ----- Was the crime committed by students of jamia hafsa so grave?
It is agreed that protest and propaganda is the right of every individual and that one needs to exercise them within limits. Think of the protests that take place in this country. Protests at BB’s death left hundreds of trucks and several trains burnt and economy crashing down badly. Nobody was held responsible! The students of jamia hafsa did tread on some sensitive grounds, True! But again I would ask, was their crime so grave? Kidnapping the people who were running a brothel, which existed under the very knowledge of police high-ups, wasn’t that big a deal as kidnapping the whole judiciary. Students of LUMS and Punjab University protest against emergency and only police is enough to take care of them yet the students of jamia hafsa protest against immoral values and whole lot of rangers, police and SSG are sent to teach them a lesson – a lesson of life – the operation to silence them all! Did the students of jamia hafsa belong to a lesser creed?
So this injustice continues, it were our forces at jamia hafsa and now the ISAF hitting at our backyard killing innocent. For how long we want to maintain the silence? For how long we want to think of ourselves as helpless dejected soles? Its time for a change! Time to stand-up, Time to join hands and raise our voices! It’s time, that you and I, who constitute the youth of Pakistan, take responsibilities of steering Pakistan to right path. To teach the perpetrators a lesson and to stand up against the dictators! Let’s make a resolve; we won’t be enjoying university life ever again in life (graduate level). Its time to act, we are in final year. To raise our voices, against the dictators, against the imposers, at every level, starting from our own college!