{"id":816,"date":"2008-05-14T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T08:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=816"},"modified":"2008-05-14T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T08:58:30","slug":"editorial-murdering-a-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2008\/05\/14\/editorial-murdering-a-messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Murdering a Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not an ordinary murder. He was a healer of the children. He was the first Child Specialist belonging to the deprived Gilgit \u2013 Baltistan. He must have burnt his nights to reach at this position of distinction. <\/span>We all know what it means to burn the nights and, thus, we all are enraged. We condemn the brutal, the tragic, and the heinous crime against the children of Gilgit \u2013 Baltistan and their messiah, in the strongest of terms.<\/p>\n

Dr Agha Jan enjoyed a position in the society that isn\u2019t paralleled by many others. It isn\u2019t just rhetoric. It was proven by the thousands of people who participated in his funeral prayers in Gilgit and Ali Abad, the thousands who protested in Hunza and Gilgit city against his tragic death, the hundreds of thousands who were shocked but didn\u2019t join the protestors and all those who felt that an irreparable damage had been caused to our society. It was some sort of a \u2018pleasure in disguise\u2019 to see the entire Gilgit \u2013 Baltistan condemning the criminals and demanding justice for the doctor, his family, his patients and his friends. It is a manifestation of our humanistic attributes. <\/span><\/p>\n

The death is also a wake up call for the entire society. It shows that we, as a society, have constanly failed to develop tolerant, peaceful and considerate citizens. Every week there is one or two reports in the region\u2019s press about brutal murders on one count or the other. An analysis of these murders shows that intolerance, complicated by the evil of feudal vendetta, is the main factor in the background. Of course there are sectarian killings but the number of deaths that are non-sectarian in nature are much more and consisent, relatively.<\/p>\n

The noble Islamic principles of fortitude and forgiving are there to guide us but we unfortunately, despite of showcasing a noisy \u201cIslamic\u201d outlook, are not eager to follow the principles that were dear to the Prophets, the Caliphs and the Imams. It is a responsibility of the society\u2019s elders, the religious scholars, the non-religious members of civil society and everyone else concerned about the society to preach tolerance, to persuade people to shun militancy and help them in the process by giving alternative means of dispute resolution. At times people resort to \u2018justice dispensation\u2019 just because they either don\u2019t trust the statutory organs responsible for delivering justice or because these cases are too expensive in terms of time and money. <\/span><\/p>\n

Since the killer of the late doctor has been arrested by the police, within half an hour of the murder, we hope that justice will prevail. In the meantime we think that now the people of Gilgit-Baltistan shall stay calm and allow time and space for the courts and other related agencies to dispense justice.\u00a0 <\/span>(Noor_.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not an ordinary murder. He was a healer of the children. He was the first Child Specialist belonging to the deprived Gilgit \u2013 Baltistan. He must have burnt his nights to reach at this position of distinction. We all know what it means to burn the nights and, thus, we all are enraged. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79],"tags":[4783],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-editorial"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}