It’s all rhetoric. While in an interview with CNN, the Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani warned that there would be ‘no more business as usual’ with Washington after the death of 25 troops in the Nato attacks on Pakistani border posts on the weekend. However, there is no body count of the real victims of all the wars that this country has got itself embroiled in wittingly or unwittingly. These victims remain mere statistics. Touba is just one of those victims whose story remains the same generation after generation. All she asks is ‘but why me?’ Whose side was her husband on when he was killed in the line of duty? Who was the friend and who was the foe? Whose battle is it? With these endless questions, she is left to fend for herself and her infant daughter.
Muhammad Usman Bashir was killed in the Nato Attack. He was 23 year of age and had been inducted in the army six year ago as a commissioned Officer. Presently he was attached with the Azad Kashmir regiment and had been posted since the last year in the Mohmand Agency.
His mother, Uzma Bashir while talking to Dawn, said that Usman was an “obedient” and “talented boy”. She claimed that her son had brought honour to Sahiwal being martyred in the line of duty.
His wife shares those sentiments and said that her husband was very loving.
Usman's infant daughter, Rameen
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