It’s been fourth consecutive day of riots here in Lahore and it doesn’t seem to be stopping. More and more businesses are getting affected. Many people are not sending their kids to schools. Lots and lots of cars have been burned, among fast foods is KFC and McDonalds and many other whose names I don’t know, Bank Alfalah's one branch was also burned. Citizens are confused about what is happening and why it is happening. These protesting mobs look at what’s looking big, that is any 2 or 3 floor building and if there is no Army or Police there, they will just try to burn it.

The culprits call themselves lovers of Islam, but the truth is that they are just unfortunate uneducated Muslims who are making their fellow Muslim’s lives miserable, and in turn earning Hell for themselves. For an average Pakistani it takes a lot of months (maybe years for some) to save money to buy a motor bike, and those sick protesting people; they just came and burned it, and for no reason. Well they say it’s for the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) that were published in the Danish newspaper, but check this: what teachings of Islam ask us to hurt our neighbor when someone in another country says something bad about Islam? Beats me seriously. They are doing it for absolutely no bloody reason. Hearing bikes and cars being burned wasn’t surprising for when I heard that they have burned shops, a little one even of which must be feeding multiple families. This can never happen if you are following Islam. This is just destroying reputation of Islam, and reputation and economy of Pakistan. What will be the world thinking of us right now? It’s just shameful.

And just look at the government, they seem to be doing nothing. They just can’t stop these activities. Are they sleeping or what? Government is just building roads! We need peace first and then other things. We pay taxes everywhere we go in the country. What do we get? While walking on a road you see two guys on a bike come to you shows you a loaded gun and asks you to hand over your wallet, cell phone and everything you have. You go to a shop in a car, when you come out you never see your car again. Security is getting worse. At first these cell phone snatching spread large in Karachi and now it is increasing in Lahore. Recovery is so disappointing that no one now expects it.

I believe it’s easy for government to control all these situations, provided that they DO want to control.

Today, while in office, we went out to eat. Although streets, where I went through, were looking peaceful but people had started closing shops pretty early in the day. The banks and restaurants had closed operations earlier. A friend sent me an email that the software company he works for advised everyone to go home after 12pm today because of the “tense situation in the city”. I read the same message outside Bank Alfalah’s branch in Faisal Town today. We saw Standard Chartered bank had covered its building with white plastic covers to hide their name because when the riot sees anything that they read which sounds western, they just try to burn it. Yea I know that’s completely stupid and unbelievably uneducated! In Gulberg area, we saw Telenor, a Norway’s telecommunication company, had to put a large banner of Kalmah (the basic tenet of Islam) in Arabic language in hopes that their building won’t be burned, and then they had to invite Army to protect them.