Daily Times

Sir: Where the killing of Osama has closed a definite door, it opens a multiplicity of small windows through which we peer for making some sense of the dramatic episode of the US mysterious attack on Osama’s hideout. This inquisitiveness is certainly an instinctive human trait. But curiosity in large doses became instrumental in killing the proverbial cat.

Bin Laden’s fall from being the most wanted man into the deepest and darkest recesses of the sea are being jubilantly celebrated the world over. Where people all across the globe rejoice, those in Pakistan are entwined in the endemic debate of what might be the worst possible consequent onslaught for their feeble nerves that have already worn weary after experiencing waves of crises.

Apparently, the government has adopted the best possible strategy of going along the international tide that terms this killing, despite the US breaching Pakistan’s sovereignty, a landmark in the history of the long war, which it surely is. The recent statement of the Pakistani leaders at least clears the air, albeit partially, by explaining the role that the Pakistani intelligence agencies had played so far since 2001.

However, President Zardari was found too busy in matters of larger concerns (to himself) to find time to address the nation and provide comfort to the millions of Pakistani people who asked the inevitable question: what comes next?

Will a post-Osama Pakistan be a country safe from al Qaeda yet under a greater threat by the US? Will somebody in Islamabad please wake up?

LUBNA HAMEED

Rawalpindi