As a resident of Karachi, that gets affected by the bomb blasts that occur almost monthly now, I get to notice certain similarities between the series of Blasts that have been occurring in the city for over a year now.
Firstly, the timing of the blasts is often at a certain time, a time when most people are out and busy, cars are jammed on the roads in an eternal traffic jam as people go home after work from their offices. It’s the time of sunset, a period of time in close proximity to the time of Maghrib, which is the prayer a muslim offers at sunset.
The twilight at this time is deceptively innocent and soft, but I have noticed a similarity between the last few bomb blasts; one at Abdullah Shah Ghazis Mazaar at Clifton and the one that exploded at the PIDC office on Ziauddin Ahmad road.
Since this time is one where many people flock to the mosques, it makes the perpetrators of these hate crimes quite heartless in the pursuit of their goal. We seem to believe that all these suicide bombers have been brainwashed by religious extremists to the extent that they believe they are doing this for Jihad and will go to heaven. But what kind of religious leader tells their followers to blow up a mosque full of innocent people who have no hand in the matter of their grudge against the government, other sects or the military?
It makes one really wonder who is behind the series of bomb blasts in Karachi, is the Taliban? A bunch of religious fanatics or is that simply what our media wants us to believe?
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