This is high time for the government to show fairness and courage in ensuring justice to the Sahiwal victims
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA: While I myself belong to a land, ie Gilgit-Baltistan, where the citizens are deprived of fundamental human rights, I would still want to share my thoughts on the very brutal incident that has taken place in the Sahiwal city of Punjab the past week. I grieve over the heinous crime committed by the Punjab police.
It is not the first cold-blooded incident that the country has experienced. Why do such incidents even occur? Isn’t it a failure of state institutions? Is it what people were expecting in Naya Pakistan? These are some of the questions which everyone wants to ask of the chief executive of the state who made big promises before coming to power. If the grievances of the ordinary citizens are not redressed, then there would be no difference between the previous so-called leaders and the newer ones.
This is high time for the government to show fairness and courage in ensuring justice to the bereaved families. If the perpetrators are given protection under the blanket of the JIT and other fake promises that remind us of our previous leaders, then the time is not far when the masses would start lashing out at the rulers. The government needs to accept their negligence and incapability in restructuring the system and should start the process of carrying out proper reforms to rectify the flaws in the system.
Kamran Nagri
Published in The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2019.
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