30 instances when our 'ghairat' should awaken but it doesn't

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One might ask, our priorities, are they not terribly messed up?

2016-07-18T22:29:50+05:00 Hassan Raza

1) When a Christian woman in Lahore is raped, stripped, beaten.

2) When a hundred kids in Kasur are raped and videotaped.

3) When a girl is set on fire in Abottabad for helping friend elope.

4) When Hindu girls are abducted and forcefully converted.

5) When we vote for the same corrupt politicians.

6) When a religious community literally has to sit next to dead bodies of their loved ones in freezing cold to demand justice.

7) When the biggest metropolitan city is nothing but a garbage dump.

8) When doctors are targeted and gunned down over their crime of belonging to ''wrong'' sect.

9) When two boys in Sialkot are beaten to death publicly.

10) When our teachers and intellectuals are killed in broad daylight.

11) When terrorists play football with the heads of security personnel after beheading them.

12) When hundreds of factory workers are burned alive.

13) When misogynists compare women with bitches during a live program on national television.

14) When an old Ahmadi man has to spend years in jail for quoting Quran.

15) When hundreds of thousands come out in support of a convicted murderer.

16) When a mob beats Christian couple to death over alleged "blasphemy.

17) When countless women are abducted and trafficked.

18) When a shot transgender in Peshawar isn't treated in a hospital.

19) When a baby girl dies because of one of our "leader's" VIP protocols.

20) When local Hindus have to leave their country and migrate to India.

21) When women face acid attacks for refusing marriage proposals.

22) When girls as young as six are raped.

23) When a "religious scholar" on national TV makes crude shalwar remarks at a woman.

24) When a woman in our national assembly is called a "tractor trolley."

25) When country's Nobel Laureates are ridiculed, cursed and humiliated.

26) When a religious cleric sitting in the heart of capital openly supports ISIS.

27) When head of the state is found ''laughing'' at the funeral of the greatest humanitarian this country ever produced.

28) When country's premier's name appears amongst the list of most corrupt people around the world.

29) When the green passport is ranked 2nd worst passport in the world.

30) When Pakistan remains as one of the only two polio-endemic countries in the world yet those who try to eradicate this disease are regularly attacked.

The only time our Ghairat awakens:

When a woman takes off her clothes.


One might ask, our priorities, are they not terribly messed up?

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