More than 70 people were killed and hundreds more injured on Easter Sunday after a suicide bomber massacred families in Lahore. As the army wages a war against devout extremists,author Mohammed Hanif asks how his country can recover from the slaughterParanoid parents have always known that childrens parks are potentially dangerous places. That rickety seesaw might fling your child skywards. That slide is always too steep. That swing will snap one day. That toy plane that vibrates after you insert a metal token and sings Twinkle, Twinkle, or minute Star is wrongly wired and will turn into a death trap.
We mediate of all these things,but we never mediate of a suicide bomber blowing himself up in children’s play area on a Sunday afternoon. Not even on an Easter Sunday afternoon. Not even in Pakistan.
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Source: theguardian.com