Bahrain Federation of Expatriate Associations (BFEA) was rightly ‘sad’ and shared its ‘thoughts and prayers’ for the Belgian people at their difficult time following security ‘threats’.

BFEA in its statement stated that nothing was more important than the rule of law, and particularly protecting our ‘children’ from growing violence.

I started reading the GDN when I first arrived in Bahrain in 1982.

My belief is that as far as local contents are concerned, its coverage is the fullest one can rightly expect.

During my annual holidays in Pakistan I read the paper’s online edition and back in 80s and 90s the whole month’s print issues remained safe for my reading when I returned. Not just as a hobby, but because keeping updated helps me in my job which ultimately provides me my livelihood.

However, I have failed so far to find any mention of BFEA sharing the same ‘sadness, concern, thoughts and prayers’ when 135 children died last month in a terrorist attack on a school in Pakistan. Hundreds more were injured in the attack.

I am sure if the BFEA is ‘saddened’ by a ‘threat to one,’ it would be saddest on actual attack on another without any discrimination.

Pakistanis in Bahrain are the second largest expatriate community and I am sure the BFEA must have not discriminated against it on the pretext of Westerners and Asians.

M S