The two songs
(Pakistan’s blueprint to fight terrorism)
Arif Ahmad
On Dec 16th, 2014, seven terrorists all foreign nationals attacked Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar Pakistan killing 141 including 132 school children aged eight to eighteen.
The country, ravaged by terrorism, turned a corner and united behind its armed forces which launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Around the same time, the Army released this song by the APS children, the refrain of which is:
“We belong to a nation of whose children the terrorists are scared of
What kind of an enemy are you that fights with children.”
Terrorist attacks in the Pakistan have since decreased significantly.
Now at the one year anniversary of this massacre with Operation Zarb-e-Azb still going strong the Army released another song by them school children and this time around the refrain says:
“Mother I have to go to take our revenge
Which is to teach and educate the children of those terrorists.”
Pakistan’s Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai, yes the 18-year old girl shot in the head by the terrorists for standing up for girls education had this to say today and I quote,
“A gun can kill a terrorist, but it will not kill his thinking.
The only thing that will change his mindset is education.”
Dr. Arif Ahmad is a Muslim American and a cardiologist in Wisconsin. He is married with two children.