The killing fields of Karachi

The world is witnessing the horrible events occurring in Karachi for a significant length of time. Pakistan has already been declared as the most dangerous country of the world because of its unabating violent and terrorist incidents. Much has been said about the state of affairs in Pakistan. A number of political parties, agencies, religious groups and foreign hands were blamed for this unstable situation in Pakistan.
The drama played by ruling party, their political allies and opponents and agencies have become soap operas with the horror of impending death, destruction and doom. The current violent frenzy in the holy month of Ramazan with a huge number of killings everyday has brought the country to the brink of psychological disaster. There are a number of questions that are being raised by the international spectators, media and champions of human rights.
One most valid and pertinent question is about the role of government who is a silent observer and letting everything happen without any remorse. Making strong statements, high level and futile cabinet meetings, summoning ministers to Islamabad, making strong statements on the media, claiming arrest of a number of people and claims of dealing with the culprits with an iron hand is nothing more than a sensational drama.
In Cambodia, millions of people were massacred and history had quoted it as a tragic genocide in line with Adolf Hitler's atrocities. It is becoming obvious that the government is perpetrating these acts for its malicious intentions. The other political parties cannot go scot free as these are actively involved in this genocide.
The motives behind this saga, as assumed by the international media and experts are manifold: ethnic cleansing with intense hatred and animosity toward particular ethnic groups in order to eliminate or sabotage their voice and power. This is being perpetrated with rage, brain-washed psychopathy and intense inhuman brutality. The evidence is the tortured, mutilated and dismembered bodies of innocent victims.
The other motive is to show the individual party strength and power by causing a situation that can cause huge emotional uproar and compel the others to succumb in order to achieve the desired motive. The most dangerous and occult motive could be in the direction of disintegrating the country into a number of pieces and establish individual states.
The signs are not appearing good with whatever is happening everyday in Pakistan and especially in Karachi. Anecdotal reports indicate that the government is acutely aware about the perpetrators but deliberately ignoring the facts and facilitating this carnage with a design.
This situation is causing great emotional upheaval among the people. The Karachiites are living in a state of fear and uncertainty. There is an upsurge in depressive illnesses among the masses with exacerbation of physical illnesses or de novo appearance of ailments. Fear can lead to perpetual anxiety and sustained high levels of adrenaline in the blood that may pose dangerous medical situations.
The psychological fragility may lead to decreased productivity, absenteeism from work and drug abuse. Our nation is undergoing a period of high vulnerability emotional rollercoaster that will lead to a weak, helpless and voiceless mass of people, a scenario contrary to the dreams of the founder of Pakistan. A Handful of monsters are holding this nation a hostage and we are just waiting for a divine miracle. The solution lies in standing up against this monster as a whole nation, the way it happened in Philippines once, stop trusting the political parties and leaders bring forth revolution from within the masses. The question is: Who could lead and pull the nation out of this living nightmare? The nation had suffered from deceit and distrust from people who ruled for years. There is not a single ray of hope.
The people of Karachi had expressed their desire for the army to take over once again. This desire is secondary to sheer frustration in the face of the ongoing violent frenzy resulting in the loss of precious lives. This can be a temporary solution and probably the right one in the short-term. A long-term solution lies in grooming of the nation, giving people an adequate interval from this turmoil, elimination of all sorts of voices from society and ridding the nation of all corrupt psychopaths once and for all. Our nation needs psychological healing in the proposed safe period as we can no longer afford going through the living hell.
(The writer is a Professor of Psychiatry at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.)