29/06/2025
*Tragedy Beyond Words*
A deeply shocking, heartbreaking, and soul-wrenching incident has recently unfolded on social media — a whole family, one by one, slipping away into the raging waves of floodwaters, while the entire nation watched in grief and helplessness.
No rescue arrived. No official help reached on time.
And with that, not only did a family drown — but our collective faith in humanity and governance took another blow.
This is not just a tragedy for the bereaved family — it is a tragedy for the whole province, the entire nation.
Once again, nature demanded intention, compassion, urgency, and action — and once again, it was met with silence, slowness, and systemic failure, just like in the past.
People from every corner of the country are praying for those who drowned, and we trust that their souls will find peace and mercy in the eternal world.
May Allah grant them the highest ranks in Jannah.
But here, in this world, we owe them answers.
This is not the first time.
It happens daily, though we rarely hear about it.
I still remember five brothers who met the same fate a few years ago — crying for help, waiting for rescue, but no one came.
Their innocent faces still haunt my memory.
They ask:
"Why were we not rescued?"
"Were we not citizens of this country?"
"Were we less deserving of life?"
Even a wounded enemy on the battlefield is given aid under humanitarian law — but our own people were left to die.
Again.
Will it happen again?
Unfortunately, yes.
Indeed. Undoubtedly. Repeatedly.
Until we recognise and accept the painful truth:
We are living in the land of mafias —
A place where ordinary people are humiliated, where human life holds no value, and where we are not living in a well-governed society.
We are surviving in a system where mafias thrive, compassion dies, and citizens are abandoned like animals.
We are being ruled not by leaders, but by vultures — by cultures of negligence, by systems that move only when protocol demands it, or when the elite cry for help.
Ordinary lives? Disposable.
Rescue teams usually run abruptly and swiftly when a VIP is involved — even in incidents demanding far less attention.
But the rest? Forgotten.
Let this not be just another moment of mourning.
Let it be a moment of awakening —
A moment of truth, responsibility, and accountability.
Because no one should ever die like this — unseen, unheard, unrescued.
Dr Sana Ullah Khan
