For the sake of Allah, give me my life back!
Dear Maulana Fazlullah,
Assalam-o-Alaikum! Hope this will find you in the best of your health and spirits. I am a daughter of Swat and today I want to share some thoughts with you and i hope that you will consider it in the larger instrest of Islam and Pakistan and people of the area. Read more »
Since last night there is uninteruptted firing in the surounding areas of Mingora. Shano is here… she is terrified and overburdened by the grief of leaving her home (Tomorrow she is leaving for Abbotabad). There was exchange of fire in Saidu Sharif and Balogram, i dont know what was the matter… Now it has become our life, we have forgotten our songs and all musicality in our lives has been muffled by gunshots. However one thing is unbearable when you see people with tears in their eyes and uploading thier luggage and leaving for another city either in Pubjab or in Mansehra.
Where is our home...............?
Shano is adamant that now she will not wait anymore and will shift to her uncle house in Abbotabad. Her uncle family migrated to Abbotabad two months back, when one of her cousins was killed in Kanju by some militants. She has lost hope of the re-opening of schools. “I dont think that i will be able to continue my studies in Swat. In such condition i cant’ materialize my dream of becoming a doctor”.
War of terror for Swati People
Sameer came and told me that the dead bodies of three people have been recovered from Ali Grama village of Swat district. No one knows who killed these three innocents including one father and one son? Media says unindentified militants killed them, can the government explain who are these unidentified militants? I have also complain against media that they dont expose the real faces of the criminals. Now this has become a routine in Swat that every day a number of dead bodies have been recovered from different places. According to my estimate 1400 innocnets have so far been killed. What will be the feelings of their family members every one with a heart can understand?
Will my these sisters also raise their voice for children and women in Swat?
Today I feel lost. My hearts aches when I see helpless children and women who are displaced by shelling on civilian population by the security forces. Sameer (my youger brother) told me that thousands of people are flooding Mingora city from Odigram, Qambar, Kabal, Manglawar, Bhandai, Khwazakhela and Balogram villages of the district.
This is past. Now no smiles on girls' faces in swat
I still remember the old good days when every summer many of our relatives would visit our home close to Mingora town. They would remain here for few days to visit different places in the valley and enjoy the pleasant weather. Bazars in Mingora (Main town of the valley) would bust with tourists both from inside the country and abroad. There were stores full of Swati handicrafts, dry fruits, garments, gems, sweets and grains in Mingora. Recently a number of big Shopping malls were also constructed in Makan Bagh Mingora. My Papa says that Swat was a place that provided employment to 40,000 people only in one field-Tourism Industry and there are more than 1400 hotels. But its the story of the past… no too distant past.
People living Mingora. Thanks to the so-called military operation.
Welcome to swatstory.wordpress.com. Swat Valley, is an idyllic valley in North Western Pakistan. The valley was once called as the ‘Switzerland of the East”, for its fascinating natural sceneries, gushing rivers, Lush green landscape, Peach Orchards, Snow-capped Mountains and penoramic rural sky-screen. A few years back a half-baked cleric known as Maulana Fazlullah launched an FM channel that encouraged religious extremism, bigotry and terrorism in the valley. Soon he recruited illiterate and unemployed youth, trained and armed them and started havoc with people lives and properties in the name of implementing his extremist version of Islamic system of justice.
Swat- a paradise lost!
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