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Manufacturing consent – by Leila Ebadi

Why are 6000 Shia children killed in Pakistan less worthy than a few dozen Palestinians?

Islamist and pseudo-liberal supporters of Hamas militants, Al Qaeda, Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba are currently circulating pictures of Gaza to generate sympathies for Hamas militants and hatred for Israel. However, the same propagandists are completely silent on Pakistani Gasa, the tribal area of Kurram Agency including Parachinar where hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims remain surrounded by Takfiri Deobandi and Takfiri Salafist terrorists (Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Al Qaeda) sponsored by Pakistan Army and Saudi Arabia.

Since 2007, at least three thousand Shia Muslims have been killed by Saudi-funded Takfiri Deobandis (Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba) in Parachinar. Total number of Shias killed by Saudi-funded Taliban, Al Qaeda and Sipah-e-Sahaba since late 1980s is between 10,000 and 20,000. The area remains in a state of economic and physical blockade. Shia villages have been attacked, passenger buses and cars ambushed, innocent Shias beheaded or burnt alive; their bodies cut into pieces; dozens of women and school children have been killed. Their only crime? They are Shia Muslims and do not subscribe to the violent Takfiri Deobandi-Salafist ideology of the Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba and Al Qaeda. Along with Shias, Takfiri Deobandi Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba have also killed hundreds of moderate Sunni Pashtuns who do no agree with their violent Deobandi-Salafist ideology.

However, right wing Islamists as well as pseudo-liberal elites in Muslim countries and communities have maintained shameless silence on the State-sponsored blockade, persecution and genocide of Shia Muslims of Parachinar. Next time, if someone circulates pictures of a few dozen Hamas activists and Palestinians killed by Israel, do ask him to explain his silence on Shias of Parachinar. For a detailed review of the situation in Parachinar (Pakistani Gaza), see the following resource: https://lubpak.com/archives/tag/parachinar

A few months ago, Farhat Taj and Dr. Muhammad Taqi wrote a couple of columns in Daily Times highlighting the 17 Feb 2012 Shia massacre in Parachinar in which 47 Shias Muslims were massacred; at least 12 of them were killed by live firing by Pakistan’s paramilitary forces (FC) deployed in Kurram Agency. In the following op-ed, Farhat Taj notes that Kurram Shias have a stronger case to invite a foreign power (United Nations, Afghanistan, NATO etc) to get themselves rid of Pakistan’s military state and society that places no worth on their blood and sufferings.

Taj writes:

I will confine myself to the recent deadly suicide bomb explosion in Parachinar that killed 43 Shia Pashtun. There is something strange about this explosion. As long as the security of Parachinar was in the hands of the local Shia volunteers, no terrorism happened in the city. Some three months back, the security was taken over by the FC and the Pakistan Army and this deadly suicide attack happened. Why is it that civilian volunteers could prevent acts of terrorism but the army and the FC could not? Is something wrong with the training of the security forces? No one in Parachinar believes so. The dominant perception is that the ISI has deliberately attacked the Shia-dominated city through Fazl Saeed, the Taliban commander considered to be operating under direct orders from the ISI.

Now here is a chance for the ISI to prove the perception wrong. Fazl Saeed has reportedly taken responsibility for the suicide attack. Merely destroying his immovable properties in Kurram, as the government seems to be doing, is not enough to restore the confidence of the Shia tribesmen in the state. He should be arrested and tried under the new FATA legislation, In Aid of Civil Power Regulations, 2011. Would the intelligence agencies do so? Hardly anyone in Kurram believes so. The public perception in Kurram is that the ISI does not want a peaceful Upper Kurram — the easiest route to Kabul — as punishment for the majority Shia tribes’ refusal to allow a safe route via Upper Kurram to the Taliban for cross-border attacks in Afghanistan.

Nevertheless, peace seemed to have returned to Parachinar due to the security arrangements by the Shia volunteers, although the city continues to suffer in the years’ long road blockade. So much so that the city’s Sunni minority — that had been evicted from the city in 2007 — was preparing to come back to Parachinar as a result of confidence building measures between the Shia and Sunni tribal leaders. This attack seems to have damaged the sectarian harmony so far achieved in the city since 2007. At the time of the suicide attack some of the displaced Sunnis were in the city rebuilding their houses with the hope of repatriating their families to the city by summer 2012. Immediately following the attack, some emotionally charged local Shias attacked the Sunnis. The sensible people among the Shias managed to rescue the Sunnis but at least one of the Sunnis, Jahanzeb Jaji, was killed.

This incident seems to have placed a question mark on the repatriation of the internally displaced Sunnis to Parachinar and has also deeply saddened the Shias. The Parachinar Sunnis I contacted informed that they heard the Shias saying: “We have been much more pained by this one Sunni death than by the 43 deaths among the Shias.” The Shias of Parachinar are extremely traumatised due to the death and destruction caused, especially the road blockade since 2007. It is likely that people living with trauma show a misplaced anger on intense occasions, such as that suicide attack. What is phenomenal is that so many Shia tribesmen have managed to stay cool-minded despite the trauma they have to live with as shown by the Shias who rescued the Sunnis. According to the Sunnis, the security forces opened fire on the group of Shias who had attacked the Sunnis immediately after the suicide attack and resultantly some of the Shias were killed. These Shia deaths could have been avoided if the security forces had used teargas, rubber bullets or water cannons instead of live ammunition.

Wider society in Pakistan is ignoring the prolonged Shia trauma in Kurram. My fellow columnist, Dr Mohammad Taqi has written in detail (‘Kurram: children of a lesser god’, Daily Times, February 23, 2012) on how the media, human rights organisations and political parties of Pakistan are oblivious to the Shia sufferings in Kurram. It looks as if the Shias in Kurram are being treated like the Baloch in Balochistan, which continues to bleed under the control of the military establishment and wider society in Pakistan looks the other way. Now the US has shown some interest in Balochistan that has been welcomed by the Baloch leaders.

Let’s not forget that Shias in Kurram too have a history of inviting the British forces to Kurram due to their differences with the then Afghan government. The British accepted the invitation by taking over the administration of the area in 1890. Today, the Kurram Shias have a stronger case than the previous ones to invite a foreign power to get themselves rid of the state and society that places no worth on their blood and sufferings. No one should be surprised if the Shias repeat their history. Those preparing the scorecard for the US must especially note and consider history.

پاکستانی غزہ پاراچنار کے عوام نے غزہ کے پٹی پر صیہونی حملے کی شدید مزمت کرکے نام نہاد مجاہدین القاعدہ طالبان اور سپاہ صحابہ کے تکفیر دیوبندی کو حقیقی جہاد کے لئے غزہ و فلسطین جانے کا مشورہ دیا ۔

پانچ سال تک طالبان اور القاعدہ کی طرف سے محاصرے کے شکار پاک افغان بارڈر پر واقع پاکستانی غزہ پاراچنار کے طوری بنگش عوام نے غزہ کی پٹی فلسطین پر صیہونی حملے کی شدید الفاظ میں مزمت کی ہے۔ اور کہا ہے کہ ہمیں مظلوم فلسطینی عوام کے درد و کرب کا اندازہ اس لئے ذیادہ ہے کہ ہم اسی کیفیت سے پانچ سال تک طالبان اور ان کے سرپرست عناصر کی طرف سے مسلط کردہ غیر انسانی محاصرے کا شکار رہے ہیں۔ انہون نے مذید کہا کہ طالبان اور ان کے سرپرستوں کی طرف سے محاصرے کے دوران پاراچنار کے کئی چھوٹے بچے ہہسپتالوں میں علاج و ادویات نہ ہونے کی وجہ سے شہید ہوئے جب کہ پانچ سالہ محاسرے اور طالبان کی طرف سے مسلط کردہ جنگ میں پاراچنار کے پندرہ سو سے ذائد افراد بشمول بچے و خواتین تک شہید کر دئیے گئے۔ انہوں نے مذید کہا کہ ظلم اور درندگی و ریاستی دہشت گردی کی اس سے بڑھ کر اور کیا ثبوت ہوگی کہ پانچ سالہ مسلط محاصرے میں ٹل پاراچنار روڈ سرف طوری بنگش قبائل کے لئے بند رہا اور دوسرے دہشت گرد عناصر طالبان القاعدہ کے لئے کھلا حتی کہ سیکورٹی فورسز کے لئے بھی کھلا رہا۔یہ سلسلہ محاصرہ کتم ہونے کے بعد بھی جاری ہے گزشتہ ماہ سیکورٹی فورسز کے چیک پوسٹ کے قریب طالبان دہشت گردوں نے پاراچنار کی خواتین طالبات کے مسافر کوچ پر تیزاب پھینک کر فائرنگ کی۔

پاراچنار کے عوام نے جہاد کے ٹھیکداروں القاعدہ و طالبان سے سوال کیا کہ وہ حقیقی جہاد فلسطین میں کیوں نہیں چلے جاتے؟ صرف اور صرف مظلوم و نہتے مسلمانوں کا قتل عام کرنے کے لئے پاکستان عراق بحرین افغانستان و شام میں مظلومین کا قتل اور عوامی مقامات پر خودکش حملے کرکے صیہونیوں سے اظہار یکجہتی کر رہے ہیں۔ انہوں نے ان رپورٹوں پر شدید تشویش کا اظہار کیا کہ ھکومت پاکستان نے ہزاروں انسانوں کے قاتل طالبان و القاعدہ لیڈروں کو امریکی ایما پر رہا کرکے شام میں اسرائیل مخالف اور حماس و غزہ کی طرفدار دمشق کی حکومت کا تختہ الٹنے کے لئے ان القاعدہ و طالبان کو شام بھیج رہے ہیں۔ جو قابل مذمت ہے

حماس کی اکثریت سعودی حمایت یافتہ سلفی انتہا پسندوں پر مشتمل ہے جو سنی صوفی اور شیعہ مسلمانوں کو مشرک اور کافر سمجھتے ہیں، حال ہی میں حماس نے اپنے محسن ملک شام کی کمر میں خنجر گھونپ دیا اور قطر اور سعودی امداد کے لالچ میں شام میں علویوں، سنی صوفیوں اور مسیحیوں کے قتل عام میں ملوث تکفیری سلفیوں کا ساتھ دینا شروع کر دیا – پچھلے سال غزہ میں حماس نے شیعہ مسلمانوں کی عاشورا کی مجلس پر پابندی لگا دی اور شیعہ مجلس پر حملہ کر کے متعدد شیعہ اور صوفی سنیوں کو زخمی کر دیا

پاکستان کے دیگر شیعہ اور سنی مسلمانوں کی طرح پاراچنار کے شیعہ اور سنی بھی فلسطین سے ہمدردی رکھتے ہیں لیکن حماس کے تشدد پسند تکفیری سلفیوں کو فلسطین کا نمائندہ ہر گز نہیں سمجھتے

فلسطین میں امن کی کنجی اسرائیل میں رہنے والے غیر متحارب انسانوں پر غیر انسانی اور غیر اخلاقی راکٹ حملے نہیں بلکہ اسلام اور انسانیت کی اعلی اقدار کی پاسداری ہے

Source: Adapted from facebook, Daily Times, various sources

Parachinar (Pakistan) and Gaza (Palestine)

Warning: Some videos contain graphic pictures depicting atrocities by Takfiri Deobandi Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba against Shia and Sunni Barelvi Muslims.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezEHMCFYGhU

http://youtu.be/yhJpu7yc9WQ

http://youtu.be/BcDNLWFL-HI

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