North Waziristan question
From the Newspaper | 28th July, 2012
THIS is apropos of Sadia Agha’s letter ‘North Waziristan qestion’ (July 12). The writer tries to make a case for an operation in North Waziristan.
Let me take the opportunity to remind Ms Agha that while it was the poor and security-related people who were getting killed, an operation in North Waziristan would be catastrophic and bring the war to the ‘cosy drawingrooms’ that have so far encouraged bloodletting of the poor living in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
DR SHAHIDA WIZARAT
Karachi
" All wars are made by old men in anterooms apart,
who plan for greater armament and mark the battle chart,
but where their sightless eyes start out beyond Life's vanished joys,
I notice nearly all the dead are hardly more than boys."
Grantland Rice