In 2003, newspaper columnist Peter Beaumount paid a visit to Israeli-occupied Palestine to examine the psychological effects of Israeli atrocities on the Palestinian children. In his article, he wrote: “Their fear is displayed as anxiety, crying, regression and speech disorder, a sense of helplessness and withdrawal from normal world.”
For such effects in children and women of Fata, because of the anti-terror war and a year of US drone attacks, the BBC telecast a documentary in 2005 and as expected, it was blacked out in Pakistan. Hopefully, Islamabad would have taken care of the psychologically-effected Fata children and women.
Z A KAZMI
Karachi