[Reader-list] Did God make a mistake in Pakistan?

[Vijender chauhan]

What to say!  Except that please ask me as well I'll add some from
kashmir to kanyakumari. One name I am eager to add to this list is
"GOD".
vijender



On 10/19/05, rehan ansari <rehanhasanansari at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Bilal Minto writes a column for DNA
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> Did God make a mistake in Pak?
> Sunday, DNA, October 16, 2005  20:17 IST
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> Bilal Hassan Minto hopes that next time God feels like doing a little
> justice, he could do a bit of homework first lest there is a mistake
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> LAHORE: Despite my frivolity, I am finding it hard to say anything funny
> today. A couple of  hundred miles north of here, hundreds of thousands of
> people lie dead and a few more hundreds of thousands await death. It will
> come to them; surely, and slowly. In the ghost cities and villages up there,
> the dead far outnumber the living.
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> A young mother sits besides the debris of her erstwhile home pulling at
> something. It is the hand of her four-year-old son and it is the only part
> of him visible. He was crying loudly before. Then he was whimpering. Now he
> is quiet. For his mother whom God has graciously spared, life's journey is
> suddenly much, much longer than she ever expected. Unless she ends it
> herself, like some others have done. A father finally displaced enough
> rubble to reach his son, the only one alive underneath. When he saw the son
> he knew that the only favour he could do him was to finish him. He picked up
> a heavy stone and did that. Then he killed himself.
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> God's self-appointed representatives are telling us that this is a warning;
> that the people have gone wayward and left God's path and that we must
> repent and beg for His forgiveness. True. Very true! Muzaffarabad, Balakot
> and Rawalakot were a hedonist's paradise. The little dead girls and the
> little dead boys in their school uniforms, the little crippled starving
> girls and the little crippled starving boys and their crippled starving
> families, were busy in orgies when the slap from God came.
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> No, they were not merely trying to get by through another difficult day in
> their less than ordinary small lives. They were drinking and dancing and
> having orgies at 8.50 in the morning. Or did God simply miss the target and
> make a mistake?
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> Manto wrote a short piece on the killings during partition in which a Muslim
> slays a passerby thinking he is a Hindu. Then discovering that the dead was
> circumcised, he says, "Saala, mishtake ho gaya". Next time God feels like
> doing a little justice, he could do a bit of homework first lest there is a
> mistake. He could ask me for a list which I will have ready with the correct
> names and addresses from Karachi to Khyber.
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> Bilal is a lawyer & filmmaker. bilalminto at gmail.com
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