PAKISTAN BOMBS MOSQUE IN BALOCHISTAN.
The Pakistan Air Force struck a mosque, apart from several residential units, in Surab district of Balochistan last night. Several casualties feared.
And this is not the first time Pakistan’s security forces have been accused of violating the sanctity of mosques. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa too, the current chief minister alleged that Pakistani security personnel bring dogs into mosque compounds and tie them there during military operations, an act that outrages the religious sentiments of worshippers.
This is the same country that goes to the UN and cries foul over the legal demolition of mosques built on encroached private and government land in other nations.
Yet at home, it routinely blows up mosques and kills Muslims, while playing the politics of Islamophobia abroad, labelling every legitimate criticism of Islamist extremism as an irrational fear of Islam.
Pakistan is a country that has survived, in no small measure, by weaponising its Islamist identity, repeatedly invoking the spectre of its nuclear programme falling into the hands of Islamist extremists to threaten and pressure the world. And still it goes around the world behaving as though it is uniquely entitled to moral authority, sympathy, and privileged treatment.
