I happen to watch Pakistan news a lot, mostly as its more interesting than India. There is a lot happening in Pakistan every day than India. In India its so calm(talking strictly about politics) unless there is something outrageous happen with Pakistan, otherwise it is all dull and boring, even politics is boring.
There was an interesting time when Kejriwal was fighting Delhi election, those 6-8 months during the election and his government could be the most entertaining times for politics in India in the recent history. Everyday new tantrum, threat, theatrics, he was ruling the media. This all coupled with social media Twitter trends and forged photoshoped pics made it a good circus. But now his theatrics are old, beside that his loud mouth targeting of Modi and stopping new lows made it all dull again. From a good IIT educated IRS lad, he branded himself to be a cheap "sadak chap" bigot, who will go any lengths to get few minutes of airtime. Indian politics is becoming dull again unless our Rahul baba do something funny.
Enough about India, I would like to take my discussion to a serious topic of Terrorism in Pakistan. One thing I happen to observe in recent months after every terror attack is the insensitive attitude of Pak politicians and media. I am not talking about playing heavy background music and showing the family members of deceased to get more TRP even if it require selling those real tears, its media, that's how they do it. But I am talking about the role of media and politicians to make the government/establishment accountable.
The cycle after every attack is:
The news channels break it, reporters rush to the site and report. All day panelists are called for analysis, Photo ops by established figures are covered, pompous statements are released, sometimes copy-paste of previous statements. By the time it hits the prime time slot its reduced to 10-15 minutes of coverage and the next day just a news or two.
After Lahore Bombing this year which took
70+ lives, the same pattern was repeated, the news died in 1-2 days and its business as usual after that.
After Quetta Bomb Blast in August that took
70+ lives the news barely made it to prime time coverage.
After Quetta Police academy which took
60 lives the news can't stand even 12 hours before politics started to get more coverage.
Safoora Goath and other incidents in which
20+ lives were lost cant even make it to the evening before the news related to some Zardari, Altaf, Imran, Nawaz took over the TV.
60 bodies, 70 bodies is a big number, actually, it is so big that govt. can't even arrange for proper govt. transport to carry those bodies. But yet within few hours after the incident, the news of Dharna or something else were given more preference to this particular incident.
There were some serious questions about this incident which deceased families have:
1) Why the wall, even after the sanction of CM was not built.
2) Why Cadets were stopped and some recalled after passing out parade.
3) Why so improper security arrangements were made.
But all these questions were not asked with the force they needed to be asked. They were asked once or twice in talk shows to some analysts instead of govt. as a result govt. just escaped answering them.
Now if we compare this to Indian media, they were butchering govt. Even if the number is just 2 bodies the govt is thrashed for days unless they take some steps which they are not willing to take otherwise. It's strange in Pakistan that media just don't pursue those question vigorously and what surprises me most is the opposition. Which included the messiah Imran Khan, he too contribute in changing the topic by inserting himself and making a new issue about himself out of the terrorist attack.
My questions are:
Why is Pakistani media so casual about bodies that they forget about that incident in 3 days and that incident is not mentioned again unless there is a new attack?
How did those politicians, any of them, get succefull to change the narrative of attack from accountability to politics about something else?
Is 20 or 60 lives so small number or Pak people are so used to it that they call it just a bad day and move on? Why that anger is not translated into protest? Is it the fatigue of carrying dead bodies?
Its a very sad situation and my heart goes out to all those who lost their lives but I dont think anything has changed even after APS, infact people now care less and less with every passing day new attack (or atleast it look like so). The thread does not intent to hurt anyones feeling, if it does so I apologize upfront.
dont invent things out of your @ss, just cuz every party in your country got militant wings its doesn't mean it become the universal practice.
