Reactions | We Care

Writing for ireport became quite adventurous when I posted my first report without expecting the reaction.

With in few minutes of posting, Christina Zdanowicz from CNN emailed and latter called to ask few questions about the post “We Care”. The call ended up quite long. She wanted to know why I wrote this report and how was Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks.

I told her that I read Indian reactions on irport.com and it hurts to see such abhorrence for Muslims and especially Pakistanis in their hearts. I just wanted to portray what whole of Pakistan is feeling about it.

We were in shock and disturbed even terrified that Karachi could be attacked like that too. In short the discussion got quit lengthy. Christina also said that “we care” was the only response they got from Pakistan!

She asked for permissions for using my report on CNN. Within an hour CNN.com published my ireport. It was an exciting experience for me to see for my first and totally unplanned report to be the highest rated, most viewed, most shared and with highest number of comments for two days!

The comments how ever, were mostly from Indians. Every few were the encouraging one. It was dispiriting to see two or three Pakistanis participating in the discussion. There was no one to respond to the all harsh comments that we were getting from Indians.

During this eye opening experience, a Canadian also posted a reply. He was 40 and his grandparents were British. He said that he is friends with both Pakistanis and Indians and have nothing against both. He even said that he read about British history and was too angry at his ancestors that why would they steel the jewels from the sub continent. And he actually apologized for the acts of his ancestors!

I will always remember the innocence and originality with which he wrote that. And I guess that’s what we need to do!

Let’s move on.

We Care!

This is a voice from Pakistan, where we are in pain for the unnecessary loss of precious lives of Indians in recent Mumbai attacks.

Everyone here is shocked. We have been watching news and praying for the quick end of terror wave in India constantly as even our families and friends live there. It's been like this since ever. We have cultural inheritance and a sincere love for each other.

But it hurts to see Pakistan being blamed without any evidence and being threatened by Indian press, government and the army. It's another debate that why the Indian government and the intelligence agencies failed to track this plot down and how did these terrorist managed to get the ammo.

We as Pakistanis have suffered the most even before the war against terror started. Horrific memories of 1995 terror attacks are still fresh in our minds and they continued after that with different intensities. Currently we are fighting against militant groups within our country. Our bazaars, public places, government buildings, citizens in general are being targeted since many years now.

These terrorists are neither Pakistani nor Muslims; in fact they even drift away from the category of humans. No nation suffered from terror attacks like we have.

We stand with India in this time of crisis and it would be heartening if they would too.

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