The Sacrifices by Us:
Capt OmerZeb Shaheed
By: Qasim Butt
I was sitting next to him on the grass patch during my college days, enjoying the bright sunny winter morning. Belonging from a family of retired Army Officers, we shared experiences of our past schooling and friends that we made on different places. While our class fellows played in the basket ball ground, cheering and shouting. We continued our pleasant conversation, and we came to astonishing fact that we have been class fellows even in Army Public School Peshawar while studying in class 3. With this it opened new arena of our personalities and i found him an affable, courteous and pleasant-talking gentleman with a sense of dignity and honor embedded in his soul.
As the time passed by, various events brought us together on same crossroads. We shared couple of things in common, we both were debators, joined the same college-house which was Khalid house, won various events for our college-house and due to our inherited affinity towards armed forces, we used to admire the national role of Pakistan Armed Forces. The strange warmth in his amiable personality, some-how always made him stand-out from rest of the college mates. Helpful, kind, respectful and enthusiastically encouraging were his prominent traits. However, he earned great appraisal in the eyes of his teachers, class and college-house, when he won the notable prize of debate competition.
All these memorable events of companionship, just went through my eyes like a quick flash-back of priceless golden past. Here i was, standing in an army grave-yard, saying his namaz-e-jinazah. Capt OmerZeb(Shaheed) from 111th Long Course of 9 Azad Kashmir Regiment, once my class fellow and a friend, now had brought the trophy of pride again, back home for us to live with prestige. Capt OmerZeb(Shaheed) like his noble past of his childhood and adolescence, had won the accolade for his family, for Pakistan and for us. Capt OmerZeb(Shaheed) is just one of those abundant examples who have sacrificed themselves on the call of duty for the nation.
Capt OmerZeb(Shaheed) attained shahadat in the morning of May 21st 2009, while hitting into road side IEDs (Improvised Explosive Device). While he jolted me with strong sense of self-determination of taking up the fight for better tomorrow. His Shahadat had a cleansing effect on my polluted thoughts of national disintegration and state failure. Capt OmerZeb (Shaheed) re-invigorated us with a sense of living a life of valour, virtue and stature.
In the current times of national desperation, economic recession and destroyed socio-moral fabric, one is just too vulnerable to be overwhelmed by a thought of "Run for your life". But being a Pakistani, Capt OmerZeb(Shaheed) proved it imprudent and not worth a deal to run away from your home and let the vultures tear it apart. The enemies of this Land of pure, should know by now that Allah has blessed this nation with the generation of iron-willed youth, belonging from noble families such like Capt OmerZeb(Shaheed), who are more then ready to keep up the traditions of sacrifice in the need of an hour.
Capt OmerZeb(Shaheed) did his part and now its upon us to take it on and give a final brunt. We shall never forgo the sacrifices of our shuhuda!!!
May his soul rest in peace and may Allah give his family strength and endurance. Ameen
ReplyDeleteWhat After Capt Omerzeb shaheed’s blood
ReplyDeleteCapt Omerzeb met shahadet on 21st May 2009 in area Lower Dir during the Army operation Rah-e-Rast. He laid down his prime youth for the greater cause of his motherland. With him are many more brave sons of the soil who one after the other are following the cause – to thwart the evil design of our enemies both from within and in the garb of our friends who are against the very existence of our country. The nation, more so the media is projecting their supreme sacrifices by showing their state burials, interviews of mourning parents and relatives and their youth emanating photographs.
But, is this all ? The blood of these shaheeds is asking the nation, the leaders, the intelligentsia, the decision makers “ WHAT NEXT TO OUR BLOOD”. Will their shining blood get mixed with the matti and be so, OR their blood will prove manure to the thirsty land looking for selfless and mother like sincere leaders. Will their blood bring life to this sleeping nation to stand up all together against the seen and unseen enemies who are bent upon disintegrating the nation which our Quaid and his comrades got us after innumerable sacrifices? They need to be answered by those who matter, by those who are showing their oral love for this country day in and day out on media, by those who are mere rhetoric and going at tangent to the current strategy of the government.
Let us not make Rah-e-Rast another episode of a great drama, which the nation runs every few years, the last being Kargil. Who remembers the Kargil Shaheeds ? How many were they? What cause did they shed their blood? What has come out of their sacrifices? Let this one be not another such venture. Let us not forget that if blood of these shaheeds also goes past our realizations, there will no chest forward in future to blunt the onslaught of our enemies whether within or external. Let us stand to the realism and not be fast asleep saying all is well. Let us unite all and sundry, evolve long term strategy cognizing short term goals in the best interest of our dearest homeland, since if it is there, we have our recognition both individual and collective otherwise India has much more Muslims than our total population. Let the honor and dignity of our country be much above our egos. Let we be more united and pragmatic rather than oratorical. Let us be thinking of oneness of our country rather than our communities, sects and districts because all this is dovetailed to Pakistan. Let justice and merit prevail in its true sense.
The young leaders like Capt Omerzeb shaheed and many have taken the lead, have shown us the way – the path, it is now the leaders at decision making hierarchy to give their bid and show vision, sincerity, strength of character and commitment towards their motherland, and if they do so, I assure you the national virtuosity will be an automatic fall out. Long live Pakistan