The Sindh police force has been a political plaything for decades, and since 1971 there have been a total of 57 IG’s appointed of which just two have completed their three-year tenure with IG Khawaja being the second. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is in power in Sindh for the fourth time and has made determined efforts to oust Khawaja and replace him with one of their ‘favourites.’ Civil society thought differently, took the matter to court and now has a ruling in its favour, the court taking the 2012 case of Anita Turab as a precedent in that removing government department heads without completion of their tenure and for no substantive reason was wrong.
The Sindh judiciary has sent an unequivocal message to politicians — behave. This is a message to politicians everywhere and not only in Sindh. It is timely, appropriate and just one small part of the battle to subdue political corruption that is endemic across so much of the political landscape. More of the same please, everywhere.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 15th, 2017.
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