The spate of suicide bombings is perpetually worsening already volatile law and order situation in certain regions of the world. Blowing one up is an extreme form of terrorism because the brainwashed mobile human bombs not only kill other people but are bound to destroy themselves for complete accomplishment of their terrible missions. The dying to destroy operations are the worst forms of violence because the attackers blow to pieces to cause maximum damage to their targets, more easily attack their adversaries as compare to planted bombs and leave little traces for investigation because of the assaulters' self-destruction.
Therefore, to bulwark suicide bombing is a hard nut to crack. Extremism and terrorism neither breed in a day nor can they be stamped out overnight. Exposure of immature minds to torrents of bigoted ideas during their formative phase of life is the major cause of fanaticism. Due to perpetual exposure to fierce speeches and violence generating print and electronic media the exposed individuals develop hardheaded outlook. After incorporation of fanatic ideas they do not change them throughout their lives. These live balls of fire can be misused by nefarious elements for materialization of their personal agendas. Extremism and exorbitant kind of terrorism can be rooted out through rejuvenation of vibrant social institutions because their full-fledged and active participation to socialize human beings is mandatory to groom them on moderate and modern lines to make them viable members of society.
Unprecedented extremism and outrageous terrorist activities in the contemporary world are direct or indirect repercussions of degradation of consanguine families to nuclear families. This individualism in the society provides fertile breeding ground for torrent of immoderate emotions to mushroom. The presence of a cracked education system has augmented menaces of belligerence and brutality manifolds because it teaches means of churning out money without providing guidance for character building or indoctrination of tolerance, ethical values and moral principles. The existence of a capitalist economic system that is based on exploitation has developed sense of deprivation in the people scrapping the bottom of the barrel. They resort to violent means to settle their scores with the loaded on-velvet class whom they consider responsible for their dismal state of affairs.
Deliberate distortion of religious instructions by the vested interests to inculcate extremism instead of instilling grains of forbearance and fraternity through actual religious teachings has resulted in several incidents of bloodshed. Corollary of delivering fierce speeches that instill violence and propaganda of wheeler-dealer and paranoid mass media to spread such loath-laden print and telecast materials adds fuel to the fire. Unbridled freedom of expression that ignites and insult sentiments of others incites people to fiercely retaliate in the name of protecting their faiths and ideologies. In the contemporary world man has made progress in the scientific arena with gigantic strides. But, sarcastically, with each passing day he is becoming more indifferent and brutal because of unchecked burgeoning and misuse of scientific technology that have thrown gleams of anticipation to found global harmony and peaceful co-existence to the back burner. He has prepared deadly weapons of mass destruction that can steamroll the whole human race in case of eruption of a global warfare. Therefore, all his progress in this context is counterproductive.
Waging of unjust wars by the power intoxicated crocodiles having hegemonic designs on the weak nation states are palpable testimonies of prevalence of gross social injustice at international level. Suppression of freedom and secessionist movements by the potent sovereign states and abuse of giants' strength by the states sponsoring terrorism have generated vengeance in the oppressed community against their oppressors. The power drunk global fat cats are politically subjugating and economically exploiting those already skating on their uppers all over the world. The powerful countries adopt double standards to fix intricate international issues. The only global organization UN is a toothless lion that has been hijacked by those power inebriated countries who conceived it to legitimize their illegitimate actions. Therefore, it has badly botched to resolve intricate regional and global issues on just basis. The sufferer regions facing unresolved predicaments have become thriving breeding lands of miscreants. Decay of state institutions, occurrence of despotism and pervasiveness of poverty-stricken, illiterate and unemployed teeming millions especially in the developing countries have shattered trust of their publics in their nation states. Such suffocating ambiance provides fertile grounds for extremism and terrorism to rapidly flourish.
There is great diversity of reasons that induce suicide bombers to tear down themselves. Generally speaking suicide bombers wreak havoc due to certain ideological missions or the sufferers use self-immolation operations to inflict vengeance on their adversarial aggressors to settle scores. The Kamikazes used suicide air strikes because they followed ritual of altruistic suicide (Hara-kiri).The Japanese hailed those suicide pilots national heroes because they sacrificed their lives in hour of need to safeguard their national cause. The PKK fighters and Tamil Tigers of the LTTE engaged in secessionist missions are following their ethnic ideologies. Natives of Lebanon , Palestine , Afghanistan and Iraq used suicide operations against their oppressors and foreign invaders to get rid of them so that their upcoming generations can breathe in an alive and kicking ambiance of liberty. Although, these regions have become breeding grounds of extremist elements but on any international criteria the violence of the natives fighting for freedom from the clutches foreign intruders is totally justified. Suicides bombing incidents in Pakistan are direct or indirect repercussions of Pakistan "s support in American War on Terrorism. Foreign intelligence agencies are also sponsoring these horrendous attacks to create instability in Pakistan to dismember and denuclearize it.
Dr Tanvir Hussain Bhatti/Khudi