“Nevertheless, the world’s greatest, most influential and ‘indispensable’ country knowingly signs the death warrant of human civilisation despite an overwhelming scientific consensus on what to do and what not to do.

Humans were supposed to be “ashraf-ul-makhluqaat” (the noblest of creations). They are being transformed by minuscule ruling elites serving a monster global hegemon into ‘ashar-ul-makhluqaat’ (the most evil of creations.) Gaza and Kashmir have become small-scale models of a hellish world in the making for our children and grandchildren.

There are five great powers in the world today. The Western two — the US and Europe — are currently write-offs despite or rather because of the history of their ‘advanced’ civilisation. The tragedy of Gaza is a product of such history.“

Read more of Ashraf Jehangir Qazi’s op-ed here.

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