An anti-government protest rally against inflation and unemployment in Islamabad on November 28, 2021. – AFP
THERE is no way to sugarcoat the bitter fact that we are a society at war with itself in Pakistan.
As 2022 slumbers into its second week, there are no indications that this warring is about to give way to healing. The hate, yes it’s still intensifying; the polarisation, yes it’s still widening; and the venom, yes it’s still spreading. In the process, we have witnessed the death of civility, the debasement of discourse and the dilution of values. This society is bleeding from a thousand self-inflicted cuts.
