Loss of human lives is always a tragedy, wherever it happens. Just because it has happened in Pakistan, we need not rejoice about it. Think of the families of the dead and don't make insensitive remarks.
Pakistanis should also ponder over why their country has become a hotbed of terrorists, fundamentalists and extremists of all hues. The short sighted policies followed by the Pakistani rulers from Gen.Zia onwards has resulted in the growth of Islamic extremism. Gen.Zia and his successors encouraged the spread of Islamic fundamentalism just to spite India. Now the monster of fundamentalism is turning upon its creators. Only now, after the extremists threatened to take over Peshawar, the Pakistani establishment has woken up to the danger it has created. Let us hope that good sense prevails at least now.
