Hakeem ullah the Martyr

The other day I met a Parachinari who was visibly pleased at the killing of Hakeem ullah Mehsud. On my asking him the reason for his jubilation he looked deep into my eyes with a poignant gaze and said, “If you had seen the video showing how these Kafirs  slaughtered my kith and kins, reciting Allah o Akbar while cutting their throats and then taking their heads away to play football with them in the dusty grounds, you would have also shown the same sentiments today on his killing”.  Then he reminded me of how they had strung the headless bodies of about a dozen FC men from the street poles in Matni  bazaar near Peshawar and taken away their heads as Jihad trophies with them!  He didn’t have to tell me of their calling Pakistan a Kafir state and declaring Jihad against it and its armed forces, attacking the GHQ, Mehran and Kamra bases, Police Training Centre Lahore, sensitive offices of the agencies all over Pakistan, breaking j ails, bombing of mosques, Imam Bargahs, Churches, Commercial markets and Bazars killing thousands of innocent people.  And yet MFR and Munawar Hasan call him (them) Shaheed ?!  I hope they know who is aShaheed – according to Qura’n he is the  one who lays down his life for Allah and not the one who takes the lives of the innocent ones!! Maulana seems to have gone berserk when he says that even a dog killed by the USA is a shaheed to him.  Come on Maulana Sahib, we expect much better from you !!!!

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)