I have not written here about the massacre of Hazaras in Baluchistan some days ago because what was there to say? And it was so ugly. Over the days it feels increasingly like (yet another) symbol of Pakistan’s moral bankruptcy, as the Hazara, who have been targeted and killed by Sunni militants for years, refused to bury the bodies of their dead. They asked the prime minister to come to them and acknowledge what had happened to them, to guarantee them the protection the state has never given them. This was his reply this morning:
It is hard not to feel a sense of overwhelming moral degradation, and what is worse, I know there are many in Pakistan even amongst those I respect in other matters, who will nod along. That asteroid feels long overdue.