Pakistan mosque shootout leaves 18 injured

[PakiiZeeshan]

because ego pride!
seriously how many people can handle a gun so fearlessly??
when i went to Baluchistan nearly everyone around me had a loaded ak47 hanging of his shoulder.

My uncles and grandad who live in a village outside Rawalpindi carry guns all the time (but never at Mosque), but i never seen people in the City carrying Guns. They carry guns in cities too? I guess they must feel really unsafe?

 

[PakiiZeeshan]

I didn't even think you could enter a Mosque with any type of weapons.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

My uncles and grandad who live in a village outside Rawalpindi carry guns all the time (but never at Mosque), but i never seen people in the City carrying Guns. They carry guns in cities too? I guess they must feel really unsafe?

Many people like to carry guns just to show-off or as a status symbol.

All it takes to cause pandemonium is a fit of anger and there you go! BOOM, the gun makes its presence felt.

It's very easy to lose one's cool and it's even easier to make your unease be known if you have a gun with you.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

May be I went overboard in my earlier post for which I apologise to the mods.

But my point is, this is only an effect of the gun culture that Pakistan has allowed to spread among its people.

Pakistan must control this gun culture if it wants to see peace within its borders.

While guns have indeed permeated throughout Pakistani society, many Tribal and rural areas, especially in Baluchistan and K-P, had a 'gun culture' long before the modern Pakistani nation-state was created.

 

[The Clarifier]

This is disgusting. Gun possession must be controlled

Gun sellers will lose their jobs, but it is worth it.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

While guns have indeed permeated throughout Pakistani society, many Tribal and rural areas, especially in Baluchistan and K-P, had a 'gun culture' long before the modern Pakistani nation-state was created.

Provocations AM, provocations!

All it takes is a moment of anger and if you have a gun with you, the anger will only culminate into the next logical step i.e. the firing of that gun.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Provocations AM, provocations!

All it takes is a moment of anger and if you have a gun with you, the anger will only culminate into the next logical step i.e. the firing of that gun.

What does that have to do with my point?

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

What does that have to do with my point?

May be earlier people did not have so many 'touchy' areas in their lives as they now do.

With so much negativity all around as there is in today's Pakistan, it is very easy to lose one's cool today. May be even easier than it was, say, before independence.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

May be earlier people did not have so many 'touchy' areas in their lives as they now do.

With so much negativity all around as there is in today's Pakistan, it is very easy to lose one's cool today. May be even easier than it was, say, before independence.

Again, you are on a tangent to my point that gun culture in many areas existed before the Pakistani nation-state.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Again, you are on a tangent to my point that gun culture in many areas existed before the Pakistani nation-state.

May be I've not been able to comprehend your point well enough. Could you please elaborate?

 

[BATMAN]

Wow shooting people over who gets the opening prayer and they are worried about the Taliban.

Arrangements were made to tackle suicide bombers and ghost shooters in every city.
Khuzdar is a far flung area in Baluchistan and i can understand missing security and administration and mishap happened.
Point is we left one place unattended and there you go....

I have no doubt left that no terrorist attack happened in Pakistan without the complicity of elements within administration.

I also have no doubt that our enemies have well established intelligence network across Pakistan.

 

[Vajra_Yuddh]

Aha! There's the source of all your troubles, my Pakistani friends. Now this seems like an isolated incident to you and you must be wondering what did I see in this. let me explain. I saw the "gun culture" that has gone horribly wrong. Coupled with fundamentalism and brainwashing, this gun culture's going out of control resulted in Taliban. In Hindi, we Indians have a saying "Jisji laathi, uski bhains" (might is right loosely).

The Taliban and other terrorist groups didn't come out all of a sudden or due to foreign involvement against you, but simply locals who had a twisted thinking of religion and wielded firepower, took to themselves to brainwash people by taking religion as excuse and using gun culture to get to where they are.

The only solution is to break down this concept. Commoners need to have a formal procedure to get gun licenses and only 1 gun per family should be allowed. This will reduce the violent tendencies of people and hence their susceptibility to fall prey to fundamentalist teachings.

If it has spread already, then your government needs to raid all houses by any means, fine these people (no matter how big this gets) and ask them to keep only 1 gun per house with proper license and background verification.

If this is done, then maybe extremism will vanish slowly.

 

[Karachiite]

When will the North West and Balochistan become educated? This is the 21st century and not their tribal wild west era.

 

[ZaYYaF]

I would have liked to know the accounts of both of the Imams that wanted to lead the Eid prayer, but knowing the remoteness of the village where this mishap have happened its understandable that there would not be any from either of them.

The one thing I don't understand is how would they consider themselves to be Imams when they create such a situation with consequences as these, over such a trivial matter.

My theories would be; either the Imams were egocentric, or this violence is among the pile which comes under sectarian violence (although the news does not report on it).

 

[Areesh]

A minor incident and people who are fond of talking everything negative about Pakistan are creating mountain out of ant hill even their own countries have enough proportion of violence themselves. Pathetic. Simply pathetic.