PurpleButcher
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Greetings Everyone,
It is with a heavy heart that I am opening this thread. In the last one week my my hopelessness regarding Pakistan has gradually increased. The reason is a piece of news my university alumini came across last week and was spread like wildfire. The link to the news is
CTD releases images of Safoora carnage, Sabeen Mahmud killers - thenews.com.pk
On closer inspection it was realized that the alleged terrorist in the picture on the right side was actually Sir Ali Rehman (calling a senior SIR is the culture of EME) from NUST, my senior and later my class fellow because of relegation. So he got education from Pakistan best engineering school which is run by Pak Army. Before I move on I must paint you his picture. He was a chill student, never into grades (the reason for his relegation), was an excellent basketball player, played a musical instrument, had a girl friend(as per rumors), had his final year project with two girls, excellent in embedded systems programming and mechanical modelling using ProE and AutoCAD. If I am not wrong he made more than 4 robots during his studies. He was the goto person whenever a problem occurred in micro controllers. So pretty much a normal hostel living student hailing from Karachi except for the fact that he didnt have any close friends.
Post graduation, we all class fellows got scattered, only fast friends remained in touch. Somehow he got off my radar screen. After six months or so, we got the news that he got into Uni Lever in Karachi a multinational company. He had his friends from my senior batch also working there. As per the reports he was into six figure salary. But he wasn't in contact with any of his class fellows. He soon was nowhere to be seen, neither on facebook no news.
Except last week when his picture appeared in the news. Soon our alumini started recognizing him. Soon we all remembered him and soon it was depression that followed. As per people in Unilever he resigned out of the blue one day and was never heard afterwards, his number got switched off and thats it. Another terrorist named in the news is the son of a senior Unilever employee. What was Sir Ali thinking? What happened to him? What convinced him to become a monster?
The point is, if someone from a decent family, educated from Pakistan's best engineering college, employed in a multinational can be brainwashed, what is the hope for the poor,uneducated , unemployed masses? How easy it must be to brainwash a kid from backward areas, with little or no education, with non existent employement /career? How easy it must be for enemies of Pakistan? How easily baluchistan /tribal areas/ rural sindh and rural Punjab can be manipluated?
We have made the job of our enemies too much easy. We are simply hopeless. Before this I used to believe only madrassas, poverty, joblessness, unawareness is responsible. But now the evil ideology has proved that it can penetrate the top 5% of the society as well. We need to be better prepared to fight this evil.
PS:- Some part of me is still unable to believe that he really is involved. But the evidence is pointing otherwise.
@Norwegian @HRK @Zarvan
It is with a heavy heart that I am opening this thread. In the last one week my my hopelessness regarding Pakistan has gradually increased. The reason is a piece of news my university alumini came across last week and was spread like wildfire. The link to the news is
CTD releases images of Safoora carnage, Sabeen Mahmud killers - thenews.com.pk
On closer inspection it was realized that the alleged terrorist in the picture on the right side was actually Sir Ali Rehman (calling a senior SIR is the culture of EME) from NUST, my senior and later my class fellow because of relegation. So he got education from Pakistan best engineering school which is run by Pak Army. Before I move on I must paint you his picture. He was a chill student, never into grades (the reason for his relegation), was an excellent basketball player, played a musical instrument, had a girl friend(as per rumors), had his final year project with two girls, excellent in embedded systems programming and mechanical modelling using ProE and AutoCAD. If I am not wrong he made more than 4 robots during his studies. He was the goto person whenever a problem occurred in micro controllers. So pretty much a normal hostel living student hailing from Karachi except for the fact that he didnt have any close friends.
Post graduation, we all class fellows got scattered, only fast friends remained in touch. Somehow he got off my radar screen. After six months or so, we got the news that he got into Uni Lever in Karachi a multinational company. He had his friends from my senior batch also working there. As per the reports he was into six figure salary. But he wasn't in contact with any of his class fellows. He soon was nowhere to be seen, neither on facebook no news.
Except last week when his picture appeared in the news. Soon our alumini started recognizing him. Soon we all remembered him and soon it was depression that followed. As per people in Unilever he resigned out of the blue one day and was never heard afterwards, his number got switched off and thats it. Another terrorist named in the news is the son of a senior Unilever employee. What was Sir Ali thinking? What happened to him? What convinced him to become a monster?
The point is, if someone from a decent family, educated from Pakistan's best engineering college, employed in a multinational can be brainwashed, what is the hope for the poor,uneducated , unemployed masses? How easy it must be to brainwash a kid from backward areas, with little or no education, with non existent employement /career? How easy it must be for enemies of Pakistan? How easily baluchistan /tribal areas/ rural sindh and rural Punjab can be manipluated?
We have made the job of our enemies too much easy. We are simply hopeless. Before this I used to believe only madrassas, poverty, joblessness, unawareness is responsible. But now the evil ideology has proved that it can penetrate the top 5% of the society as well. We need to be better prepared to fight this evil.
PS:- Some part of me is still unable to believe that he really is involved. But the evidence is pointing otherwise.
@Norwegian @HRK @Zarvan
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