Has the World Lost its Humanity?

"Fact is Stranger than Fiction"

The Taliban, though they call themselves the 'students of Islam' have become an organization which have spread terror not only in their country, but also all around the world. Here are a few attacks planned by them in recent years:

1. Assasination of Benazir Bhutto 2007
The Taliban group of terrorists assassinated Bhutto. Although they deny their connection with the assassination, there is enough proof that the assassination was, indeed, planned by the Taliban.

2. Marriott bombing 2008
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Marriott Hotel Truck Bombing in September 2008 in Islamabad which killed 153 people.

3. Times Square Plot 2010
Hakimullah Mehsud had pledged to use suicide bombers in the USA for the Times Square Bomb Plot.

4. Malala Yousafzai Shooting 2012
Malala, a young schoolgirl speaking for the rights of women was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012.

5. Karachi Airport Attacks 2014

After peace talks with the Pakistan government in June 2014 failed, the Taliban attacked Karachi Airport, killing 26 people.

The UN responded to each of these attacks, recognizing them as a breach of human rights and against the ethics of the world. However, the world did not expect the Taliban to commit as pathetic, unethical, and inhuman an act as was comitted by them on the 16th of December, 2014 which has been recorded as the deadliest of their attacks till date.

The Taliban infiltrated a school in Peshawar on the morning of 16th December 2014. They open fired at the students and teachers of the school killing 141 people, including 132 children.

Several children who survived have told wrenching, horrific stories to Reuters. Some describe the militants as speaking either Arabic or Farsi, others describe lying among their peers as the gunmen swept through rooms, and still more evince the untold scars that the experience has left them with.

One student, Jalal Ahmed, 15, could hardly speak, choking with tears: “I am a biochemistry student and I was attending a lecture in our main hall. After some time we heard someone kicking the back doors. Then the men came with big guns.” 

Ahmed started to cry. Standing next to his bed, his father, Mushtaq Ahmed, said: “He keeps screaming: ‘take me home, take me home, they will come back and kill me.’”

One nine-year-old boy, who asked not to be named because he was too afraid to be identified, said teachers shepherded his class out through a back door as soon as the shooting began.

“The teacher asked us to recite from the Koran quietly,” he said. “When we came out from the back door there was a crowd of parents who were crying. When I saw my father he was also crying."

These are the nature of the gory, inhuman acts being comitted today by the terrorists on the Taliban who mercilessly murder innocent citizens with non chalant attitudes.

Not only has this affected the families of the victims, but also all the survivors who can never forget the picture of the blood covered battlefield filled with bodies of their friends, peers and teachers.

Is this what our world has come to?
Is this the future of the human race?
Is this what humanity believes in?