Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Life, Pakistan, Punjab, Sindh

The word terrorism does not even exist in Sindhi and Seraiki, the languages of the majority of the people who have been rendered homeless”

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Pakistan flood victims ‘have no concept of terrorism’

By Mohammed Hanif

…These areas are of no strategic interest to anyone because they have neither exported terrorism nor do they have the ambition to join a fight against it.

Their only export to the world outside is onions, tomatoes, sugar cane, wheat and mangoes.

The word terrorism does not even exist in Seraiki and Sindhi, the languages of the majority of the people who have been rendered homeless.

They belong to that forgotten part of humanity that has quietly tilled the land for centuries, the small farmers, the peasants, the farmhands, generations of people who are born and work and die on the same small piece of land.

And this time there are 20 million of them. …

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…A puzzled relief worker wondered aloud why the world would think that this man who has just swum cross a raging flood would want to bring about a bloody Islamist revolution in a far-flung country that he has never heard of?

Is it not obvious that he just wants to save his chickens?

But this is no movie.

That half-naked child that you see in pictures with his face covered in flies is not dead. Not yet. He has dozed off out of hunger and heat and exhaustion.

When he wakes up in a little while, he will ask for what every hungry child in the world asks for.

We were told that everyone, everywhere understands that language.

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