Comments on: A Narrow Escape

By: sami

sami — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:37:15 +0000

An interesting account of facing death and the fear many people in this area have, Rehan.
Thank you for your essay.

What is needed is more education on the positives of Gilgit Baltistan and the responsibility of it’s people to educate their children about the universal cultures & religion in general, acceptance of others and how to develop this area in a positive productive manner without guns and hate.

As Slimtiger keen observation, “where everybody is educated in revenge as a religious duty”…
and as long as this is the belief, there will not be the education which is needed for change & productivity.

Hate seems to have stronger control of the human emotions than love in these times. Over the world, we need to take a look of our own motives and intentions.
When I was in GilgitBaltistan, what impressed me was the neighborly kindness and generosity. I wanted to visit again to experience this!
Why is this being lost to hate?

Pray for change and acceptance for whatever the religion or cultural belief may be. There are good people in all religions ,and hate should never be the focus.

Thoughts are with you all.

By: Aafiyat Nazar

Aafiyat Nazar — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:06:52 +0000

Excellent poetic sketch of the bloody games….and the answer to this game is “Negotiating Pluralism” for which all segments of society need to contribute.

By: Slimtiger

Slimtiger — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:31:35 +0000

A beautiful account of phrasing the memory, goodjob Rehan. The important lesson articulated here is the value of life Rehan has realized, and top of that re-aligning the rest of life for service to humanity is simply outclass.
Many a person would have faced such aberrant situations/incidents, but extracting into constructive outcomes is rare, more specifically in this time of ours, where evrybody is educated of revenge as a religious duty.
Like Rehan, every young man of the region and the country should come forward to understand the preciousness of life and its colours and Nature’s blessings, and to preserve and conserve it and use it for constructive purposes, no matter the destructive forces are more offensive and stronger, but are fewer than the you.