Only when there is a direct threat to the people should information be divulged. An example is the intentional release of two militants on account of corrupt officials. The silver lining in this escape was that the Rangers conducted an effective operation for weapons recovery that it had not achieved in 25 years. The force must continue its work until Karachi no longer requires a paramilitary force for its safeguarding. Although peculiar that such a search of its kind had been ignored for two and a half decades, allowing the murders and the act of families being broken to occur, the momentum of a dramatic security clean-up needs to be accelerated.
Currently, Karachi is playing a dangerous game of superficially enhancing its economy with an abhorrent security infrastructure. If it is unable to keep anti-state elements at bay, the efforts at development could all come crashing down one day. It is imperative that high-profile prisoners are entrusted to loyal law-enforcement agents and that any element that even so much as tries to endanger the safety of fellow citizens be censured and imprisoned as per the law.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 21st, 2017.
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