Innocent children massacred in their classroom. It should wake up people of any country that their government and institutions have failed them. But, unfortunately, it is not likely to. Pakistan has seen several such massacres. Of Shias, of polio workers, of teachers, of doctors, of Ahmedis, Christians, Hindus….random groups of people who were considered unholy, wajib-ul-qatl….deserving of murder by the mullah brigade. In the past five years, over 800 schools have been bombed and students killed or driven away.

Logic states that clerics and terrorists are not, and can never be, strategic assets. But in ‘Denialistan’, where suicide attacks and drone strikes are almost a daily feature, the establishment has brainwashed the people into believing that that is the norm. That people, including children, falling to bullets for some misplaced cause or the other is nothing extraordinary.