At last, the Supreme Court came to rescue the country by calling a spade a spade
JUBAIL, SAUDI ARABIA: Though five years later, justice for Salman Taseer and family was finally served. Realistically, however, from Pakistan’s perspective, five years is not a long period. A heated debate continued during all these years, polarising the society, as Mumtaz Qadri’s supporters kept justifying his heinous crime.
At last, the Supreme Court came to rescue the country by calling a spade a spade.
Qadri is gone, but all those who supported his cause are very much around us. Who will charge them? Who will charge the so-called religious leaders involved in brainwashing Qadri? What about those prominent Urdu columnists and opinion-makers who openly justified Salman Taseer’s murder and all those who took out huge rallies in support of Qadri? What about those lawyers who garlanded Qadri and vandalised the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge’s office and those criminals who threatened the ATC judge, forcing him to flee the country?
What Qadri did was an issue of mindset. Unless we address the root cause, another Qadri will be in the making.
It’s the same mindset that converts a young boy into a walking bomb. The government needs to ensure that the grave shall not become a rallying point for extremists.
Masood Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2016.
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