Badaber Bomb Blast: My village bleeds relentlessly but so is the Case with Quetta and Waziristan

Death is a norm in my land.
It's no more the land of flowers, doves and pigeons
It's now the land of flames, bombs and armored cars
I can't imagine the nightingale singing
And can't have the fantasy of making love
'Coz this is no more the land of flowers, doves and pigeons. Khadim Hussain

Lightening, a thundering sound and then thick smoke whirling around.  The screams of innocent kids and babies…Deafening sounds of firing from automatic guns and then wailing of women. Incomprehensible and dark moments, as if time has just frozen. After eyes could grasp the blown up and scattered human flesh, an Armageddon is just unfolding.   

This was the scene of the bomb blast in my village Badaber, 8 Kilometers in the South of Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan,   in the noon of June 30, 2013. Right now at 9pm all the TV screens display nothing big has ever happened.  The daily Dawn reports:

At least 17 persons, including three children, were killed and more than 46 injured in a blast on Sunday near Peshawar's Badaber police station targeting a convoy of security vehicles. According to latest reports, Lady Reading Hospital sources confirmed that 17 people had died in the blast whereas 45 others were injured. The dead also included one woman and four children. 42 of the wounded were civilians whereas three FC personnel and an SPO were also among the injured. Deputy Commissioner Peshawar, Jawed Marwat, told media persons that 16 people, icluding a woman and children, were killed and 25 others injured in the blast. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Inspector General of Police, Ehsan Ghani, had also confirmed the deaths of 13 people in the car bomb targeting a convoy of the Frontier Corps. He added that the three vehicles, which comprised of the targeted convoy, were destroyed. SP Rural Shafiullah Khan told Dawn.com that the FC convoy was moving on Kohat road when a vehicle parked near a CNG station detonated. He added that several security personnel were injured in the attack but no one was killed. Bomb Disposal Squad official Abdul Haq told Dawn.com that 40-50 kilograms of explosives were used in the car bomb attack.  injuring many. (http://dawn.com/news/1021795/car-bomb-in-peshawars-badaber-area-kills-16-injures-25)

                       

I later saw on Aaj TV one of the ministers of the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, belonging to PTI,  was shown as saying, “I ask Nawaz Sharif that,  For God’s sake, come out of a somebody else’s war”.     I also saw on the same TV former information minister of ANP, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, reportedly went to hospital to inquire the health of the injured in the blast.

I had wished to tell you the story of my village but while I am penning these lines at 10:00 pm,  I feel compelled to put the nostalgia off and inform you about blasts that are just being reported in Quetta which have left 25 dead and 60 injured. The blasts occurred at Balkhi Chowk in Hazara Town Quetta. I also see electronic media reporting that an attack on the security forces’ convoy in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, leaves three security personnel dead and several others in injured.

Pakistan seems to be imploding.

Jab dharti dhar dhar dharkegi. (Faiz)