It is the blame that has been shifted from one to another to avert the blow
HYDERABAD: After the recent bomb explosion at Sehwan Sharif, at Lal Shahbaz Qalndar’s shrine, blame is being shifted from one entity to another. Recently, the interior minister made the Sindh government responsible for it because of the security lapse that caused the incident. On the contrary, Sindh chief minister raised fingers at the federal government overtly and against the police department covertly. Similarly, some days ago, the Sindh IG, in his address, resented the toothless Police Order 1861, which is a production of the colonial era, that did not empower the police to satisfy the aspirations of people in the 21st century, and blamed the legislators’ (politicians) inability and lack of will for weak and ineffective status quo of the police force. It is the blame that has been shifted from one to another to avert the blow. Above all, it is the citizens who are continuously suffering due to this blame-shift game without receiving any concrete answers or explanations from authorities about their loved ones.
Bhagwan Bhatti
Published in The Express Tribune, March 1st, 2017.
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