Surprise happens, when gushing water oozes out from OBL’s compound in
Abbottabad. But this is not the surprise. The surprise is that the local
residents calls this a miracle. A miracle which happens because
according to them innocent (yes, you read it right, innocent) people
were killed there. Now I wonder which myth do I do bust here. The myth
of innocence or the myth of non-sense. Let’s stick to the later one as
it is related to an indigineous and unknown phenomenon.
The area where the spring oozed is called Orash
valley. This valley was once being flowed by river Jab. Later on river’s
water became limited to a stream, when water usage increased. The area
around the stream is now a major field for agriculture. Rice, maize and
wheat crops are regularly grown in this area. The fact here is that due
to the river that once flowed here, the land area is converted into a
fresh water wetland. Hence the water table in the area rises after
spring and monsoon, resulting in sprouting of water through the
crevices, through out the area. It is a common practice for the locals
to bore a six to eight feet injection and get continuous water from the
water table. When the foundations of new buildings are laid in this
area, even in other seasons of the year, contractors have to fill the
foundations as soon as possible, after digging, because of the water of
the water table, which fills them in no time.
Hence, it was really a surprising stunt by the locals when they
correlated the spring with a mystical justification. Still I wonder that
if the gushing of water had to be a miracle then why in the favor of
OBL. May be a more “rational” explanation would be that the water
sprouted just to wash the land and clean it off the sins. However, as
Einstein had rightly pointed out, “Stupidity has no limits.”
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