Osama Biradari

Very nicely written article...Simple yet with a depth of a message...

Wajahat bhai, the article was about the view of the world from a 6 - 7 year old kid, not Shaikh Rasheed Ahmed...For him the world would be divided into parts for simplicity...

Wow. This needs to be published in New York Times.

2- He was hardly 6 or 7 and knew international politics from alpha to omega. US backed and non-US (Osama biradari, as he called it) are the two groups our world is divided into!

Does the Author Really Believe that this world only consists of two groups. US Backed and Non US Backed. What a oversimplistic assertion. Obviously the whole Versus Thing appeals to the author intellect. Apart from the Brown Sahibs and the Mullahs there is a larger group of everyday men and women who are the reason this world goes round. if it was left to the other two groups this world would have ended a long time ago. The west terms us as the Left, we who pursue the truth , like balance in our lives and have the ability to see the reality without clinging to the west or growing beards. The author must stop generalising the world into two fundamentalist camps of the Judeo-Christian vs the Mullahs.

The 6 or 7 year old `knew` international politics, and what he `knows` will be the death of any of his intellectual development. A kid stunted for life by criminals who raise him to be nothing but cannon fodder. ``Unproductive, ruthless and unthinking.`` Or just incapable of thinking.

Ruthless Afghanistan`s revenge on Pakistan...

Ralph

Yes, congrats you have got the ``root cause``. In America the children who lose their childhood innocence so early become Drug Peddlers of mafia men, in Afganistan and PAkistan they become Fidayeens and mujahedeens.
Can`t we see that the American Mafia and the Jehadi Leader have the same modus operandi for recruitment of young. Only if we cared for our young then we would never have let our young blood become cannon fodder for the perverse criminal Jihadi Leaders.
It is also a failure of the Pakistan`s institutions and the society that it can not do anything for the innocent youth.

Jammwal:

Why war? Why greed? Good questions, the answer lies in our genetics. Humans are by instinct competitive creatures. It is the legacy we have been passed on from thousands of generations. I doubt if our intellect will ever be able to overcome our more animalistic side. It is a pity, given that we are capable of so much, but mire ourselves down in the marshes of our own making.

Ciret:

Nice articel, definitely IS thought provoking. What always strikes me whenever I see a child working like this, is not just of his/her innocence robbed, but also potential lost. We will never know, but maybe the ``chhota`` at the mechanic`s garage could have given Einstein a run for his money, or the 6 year old girl begging for money on the traffic light might be a madame Curie, given the right opportunities.

Regards,
Irfan.

All primitive societies place unthinking tribal affiliations above common humanity. This boy was merely reflecting the tradition-bound pathan society, where cousins kill one another because their fathers quarelled over land inheritance; members of one tribe kill members of another tribe in a self-perpetuating cycle of revenge killings; shia pathans routinely kill shia pathans in seasonal gun battles; panjabis are considered non-muslim because they are not pathans. In such an unproductive, ruthless and unthinking people, it is not hard to escalate one step more and continue this blood feud as osamas vs. nonosamas.

One can understand the little boy only repeating what he heard from his elders. What is the excuse of grown by pakistanis who parrot the same primitive mindset?

Good food for thought!

It does make one think in simple terms. Why war? Why greed? Why not live and let live.