We fail to understand as to why the Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami is so angry at the media? The name of Jamaat and its involvement in the August bombings were mentioned in the confessional statements by a number of detainees at the time of their interrogation by the intelligence agencies. It is no fiction of our imagination. Should we then say that it is angry due to what it deems to be an undesirable exposure? If anything, its anger should be directed at those individual criminals who were hauled up in connection with the countrywide bombings of 17 August who in their confessional statements have pointed fingers at Jamaat-e-Islami.

To us it looks as though the truth is hurting. It would, therefore, be wise for Jamaat to shun the path of undue anger and stop this unnecessary tirade against the media and the journalists; instead, it better take a hard look at its own workings. Jamaat is just like any other political party in the country and, hence, there is no reason for us to treat it any differently from others for good or for worse.

We neither wish to create any precedent nor cross the boundaries of norms of public decency calling any individual or an organisation terrorist without actually establishing and proving the allegations as facts. We, therefore, find Jamaat's labelling of the journalists as terrorists to be most unfortunate, unfair and uncivil.

The way, day by day, Jamaat is consciously hiding itself into a so-called protective shield based on some sort of moral authority, it is disserving its own interests. It has only to gain by listening to the voice of the people, voice of the media. After all, there is no point in getting angry with the messenger instead of reading the message.