Did you see the circulating pictures of newly born babygirl here? I am sure you did. Did you see the pictures of the officers that died there? I am sure you did. Did you see the pictures of all of the soldiers who died that day? I am 100% sure you did not. Did you see the pictures of the loved ones of all of those who died that day? I am 100% sure you did not.
See, I was pointing out to the importance of their having a chance to fight. In the end, a dead soldier is a dead soldier, whether he/she dies sleeping, praying, standing, fighting, or while attending nature's call. But the general public - I mean the majority - will see it in different ways.
After noticing the particular way in which the soldier dies, the people will form their emotion. The strength of such emotion will decide whether people take the pain to leave their homes and come out in the streets demanding action from the concerned authorities.
If you still do not understand how people behave under emotions, some times against their better judgment, then you should check out that video that was posted here a month back. This man's son is at the front... (now continuing the account in the father's words)...
"I got a call from my friend, saying my son had embraced
shahadat.
So I asked my friend, where did he receive the bullets, on the chest or in the back?
My friend asks me, 'why, what does it matter?'
I tell him that if my son received bullets in the back, then he will find no place in the cemetery here.
He can be buried elsewhere, and I won't attend the funeral.
My friend told me, no sir, your son received bullets on his chest.
That was a great moment of satisfaction for me, and I said, yes, now he has a place in the cemetery here."
Tell me NuclearPak, what does it matter where the guy received bullets? It is just emotions, and not rational thinking, that is at work there.
Reality is this - all the dead soldiers, that died while serving the country, irrespective of the causes of death (including suicide related to depression), shall be treated the same. But while in earlier times, glorified actions of dying in the war at the hands of enemy was used to garner support for troops, in today's times such evoking of emotions is used to carry out separate agendas for they would like to call "the greater good".
Now you see the main reason behind ISPR's stress on the soldiers being asleep at the time of the attack?
I hope you understand what I mean here, because I am not very good with communication, and my grammar has taken a nosedive since I joined Def.pk