Pakistan scene
While watching the movie Kabul Express, it occurred to my mind that Pakistanis are destined to get killed by their protectors. In the movie a fictitious character Subedar Major Jaan Mohammad gets killed by the Pakistani army even after revealing his identity.
Though I have seen this movie a number of times but in this month of March, this particular feeling got into mind because of the indiscriminate killing of innocent unarmed civilians by the Pakistani army back in 1971. Subedar Major Jaan Mohammad is an imaginary character, but the atrocities that took place back in 1971 are nothing fictitious. The army of a country is meant to defend its people from foreign invasions. Ironically, the Pakistani army killed its own people with the arms and ammunition with which they were supposed to protect them.
Pakistan and India were partitioned back in 1947 on the basis of religion at a great cost. I would like to remind the readers that it was Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Haque who proposed for a separate home land for the Muslims of India at the Lahore resolution. Later on Muhammad Ali Jinnah by championing the cause of the Muslims on the basis of Lahore Resolution of 1940, became the father on the nation of Pakistan. Interestingly, the Pakistani army has killed more Muslims than non-Muslims and the killing still continues. Back in 1971 they killed the Bangla speaking East Pakistanis and now they are killing their own kind, in a bid to eradicate terrorism. Probably, Pakistan is the only country in the world whose army kills its own people. Is this some kind of a curse or what?
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