Before I left the safe sanatized environment of the western world and came to Pakistan two weeks ago I had some concerns, one of them being the fact that there had been a series of explosions where I was going, Lahore, the day before I left.  None the less I was on my way and for the first few days I was pretty cautious about going to the local markets.  While passing a market my cousin pointed out the place where one of the explosions took place, which I must say made a little uncomfortable as we approached the area.  But as the days passed I noticed people continue to function as  nearly normal, well they have no choice,  life must go on, right?  What surprised me more however was when I saw the likes of BBC news, Sky News, CNN or  any other Pak news network while in England things always looked worse than they really were.

I originally thought most people would be living in fear, there are exceptions, but the majority of people don’t live in fear, they simply accept the situation and live as they were previously remembering that Allah has confirmed that the time of death is fixed and cannot be brought forward or delayed for even a second.  Further, the majority of people beleive that the bombings are being orchestrated not by Muslim terrorists, but by other external forces bent on destabalising the country, as Pakistan is one of the few Muslim countries with Nuclear facilities and also a military force with some power.

Keeping this in mind, eyebrows must be raised when we hear about the U.S based private companies Blackwater now called XE being here having a large number of heavy armoured hummers along with their trained merceneries, a sort of shadow army.  Blackwater forces who had immunity were secretly used in the Iraq war until some events unfolded regarding their killing of innocent civillians.  So now we hear about Blackwater (Xe) working in Pakistan covertly; well it was only after the damage was done that we found out who was behind JFK’s assisination, it was only after thousands died in Iraq that it was confirmed that WMD’s were a sham and it’s sadly evident it’ll only be after more innocent people are killed that the terrorists who are wreaking havoc with these explosions will be exposed and we’ll find what part the U.S government, it’s private army(Xe) and of course Mr 10% Zardari’s government had to play in all of this, if any (yeh right!).