Peshawar Burns - Again

There is something about attack on students that riles me up. First it was the 2014 attack on Army Public School and today on Agricultural Training Institute in Peshawar. My city has seen around 2 dozen terrorist attacks this year; barely 2 weeks earlier an Additional Inspector General police was martyred in a suicide attack. Today, 9 precious lives of students were lost in cowardly attack owned by Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan.

The scourge of terrorism will take many years and more innocent lives to be removed. Our police, citizens and any personnel have lost lives. The core of it, the anti state extremist ideology which is religion based needs to be addressed. The mere slogan that they are terrorists and can't be muslims needs to be rephrased: these are terrorists, whose actions are anti state, whose actions are attributed to religion of islam by themselves which is totally false and that Islam does not allow it.

Down with terrorism, down with extremism, down with religious ideology that espouses hatred and intolerance, down with people who support terrorism, with people who support such ideology, with ulema who spread hatred, down with any measure that somehow supports such ideology.

Rise up Pakistanis. We need to stand up to this extremism that supports the militant ideology. Stop to hatred and intolerance. No more.