The charge of Taliban apologists on PTM
How dare you call me, and us, Taliban apologist(s)? Apologists for a force of darkness who not only shatter our bodies into pieces and who not only made our blood to jam the streams; but who also ate away our sense of self, our culture and the thousands years continuity of our way of life. You dare, call us apologist for a nihilistic violence that arbitrarily killed tens of thousands of us, while the mainland Pakistan was rationalizing their terrorism. You dare call us apologist when we were living numb and when the CM of the biggest province was pleading those terrorists that he has same agenda as them and that they should spare his province, and the interior ministry of the country was calling them, "patriots". How dare you?
You see one side of darkness. We see the force behind that darkness. For you those tanks and those jets fire shooting stars of light. For us they are just another streak of the darkness. You see that the state came and salvaged us from beasts. We see that when the beasts were massacring us, that same uniforms were on the sidelines working as spectators. You see the forces of the mainland as our saviors. We see them either as complicit or complacent in our bloodshed and the mayhem on our lands. Your problem is that you present Taliban as stronger than state. We see that the very state enabled them by eliminating our elders, by not firing a bullet at them when a stick to their heads would have done away with them.
We refuse to be at the pedestal of mere condemnation of Taliban that you want us to be at. We want the state to give us our rights. We don't want to fight them. We want the state to give us life. We are not resilient, we are not brave. We only know one thing: no more war on our land, no more bloodshed. Do not make us further fuel for war on this terror and war for that civilization. It was not our destiny that first one darkness would consume us, then the state with its forces would come and would declare us all to be Taliban. We do not want to explain that we are not Taliban. We just want you to treat us as humans. We are tired of violence. We are tired of war. We are tired of detentions. We are tired of checkposts. We believe in one authority and that is of the state and we want our rights from that one authority.
You see one side of darkness. We see the force behind that darkness. For you those tanks and those jets fire shooting stars of light. For us they are just another streak of the darkness. You see that the state came and salvaged us from beasts. We see that when the beasts were massacring us, that same uniforms were on the sidelines working as spectators. You see the forces of the mainland as our saviors. We see them either as complicit or complacent in our bloodshed and the mayhem on our lands. Your problem is that you present Taliban as stronger than state. We see that the very state enabled them by eliminating our elders, by not firing a bullet at them when a stick to their heads would have done away with them.
We refuse to be at the pedestal of mere condemnation of Taliban that you want us to be at. We want the state to give us our rights. We don't want to fight them. We want the state to give us life. We are not resilient, we are not brave. We only know one thing: no more war on our land, no more bloodshed. Do not make us further fuel for war on this terror and war for that civilization. It was not our destiny that first one darkness would consume us, then the state with its forces would come and would declare us all to be Taliban. We do not want to explain that we are not Taliban. We just want you to treat us as humans. We are tired of violence. We are tired of war. We are tired of detentions. We are tired of checkposts. We believe in one authority and that is of the state and we want our rights from that one authority.
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