Hell's gate

Citizens will be happy to learn that the premier has promised low-cost electricity to his people in order to provide 'relief'.

Now, I may not be the brightest bulb in the room but I can for sure safely assume that just giving citizens cheap electricity won't really make that much of a difference. It might of course do some good but such petty arrangements sound like putting a band-aid on a shotgun wound.

You know what citizens really need? Basic infrastructure, a minimum wage job and maybe a visa of a foreign country (spoiler alert).

Increasing petroleum prices by 15 rupees and then slashing them by 5 isn't really doing the trick either. Giving the youth laptops and smartphones will not do any good either when they don't' have any internet.

The side character was truly right when he said, "Sir yeh apka vision hai". The man knew exactly what he was talking about. And can you blame him? Sometimes, you have to say things with a certain amount of zeal to keep your kitchen running. As sad as that sounds.

On the flip side, thanks to the amazing firewall that the state has been experimenting with, WhatsApp isn't downloading any media whatsoever. PayPal sounds like a million years away for now.

While our neighbours continue to run us over in inter alia the field of IT, we're here trying our best to curb any terrorism that might occur over social media.

As I've written in my pieces a hundred times, there is no way we can regulate and keep an eye on social media. The internet cannot be regulated. The only way we can regulate it is by banning all social media. Is that going to happen? By the looks of it, it seems likely. But bureaucrats and politicians will still be posting on X using their VPNs. So, will it make any difference?

On the flip side, in other more disturbing news, a suspected necrophiliac was caught at a graveyard in Karachi's Korangi neighbourhood. Oh, the human brain, what a paradox, isn't it?

History is rife with people who thought it was a good to be attracted to dead bodies.

Ed Gein, Jeffery Dahmer, Jerry Brudos and Edmund Kemper are just some of the necrophiliacs who have cemented their name in history (not in a good way) by confessing their passion for rotting flesh.

What seems common in all these men? Mostly childhood trauma and abuse.

Is that a common ground with the Korangi necrophiliac? We will never know because we don't believe in research. Of course, he will go through the trial and either be convicted or be freed, depends on the evidence. But just like Zahir Jaffer, this man needs to be questioned too. What kind of upbringing did he have? Were his parents abusive? Can we establish patterns? Is there common ground? All these questions will remain unanswered if we don't attempt at resolving the issue at its root. Should we throw the man in jail or should we throw the main in jail and learn from him as to why he committed the atrocious acts that he did?

It is quite important to note that this wasn't his first time. News reports show that the Korangi necrophile had desecrated 4 or so graves years ago and was caught back then too. Why was he not booked? I don't know. Should he have been booked? Absolutely.

But with our legal system, we don't believe in rehabilitation. We lack the facilities for it. This case, no matter how disturbing it is, won't be the last. Our society, just like every other society, will continue to produce such deviants who won't have an issue with desecrating graves, sexually assaulting the dead and feasting upon frozen blood. Humans are capable of this and more. And we will continue to learn from such deviants. Zahir Jaffer, Javed Iqbal and many unknown men were just the tip of the iceberg.

It is time we learnt from deviants. Patterns don't lie.