Perhaps it is time that the Sindh government appointed a home minister.
KARACHI: The killing of a Saudi diplomat in Karachi, just two days after an attack on that country’s consulate, both in an affluent and generally secure part of the city, reflects poorly on the law-enforcement agencies.
It is worth pointing out that these attacks happened even as the Karachi police is busy providing security to ministers and MPAs going from their well-protected residences in the same neighbourhood, to their offices in the Sindh Secretariat or the Sindh Assembly. Perhaps it is time that the Sindh government appointed a home minister, so that its energies could be channelled to securing the lives and properties of citizens. And it’s not as if the city has been free of violence — the current year has been among the most violent on record, and one really has to ask the Sindh government what is it doing on this issue? What is the Sindh police doing to curb it? Some people allegedly involved in these target-killings have been arrested, but what has become of them? Is there enough proof to try them in a court of law and if so, why isn’t that being done?
Rahat Siddiqi
Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2011.
