What is the provincial government or the police doing about this other than the home minister’s frequent public promises that these murders are symptomatic of rising extremism? The minister should know that this is not exactly a revelation and is more or less apparent to even a child. The point is that what are the police and the various intelligence agencies at the disposal of the government doing to prevent these killings and to apprehend those behind them. The Karachi police have claimed at least two arrests of men they say are involved in such killings — but the violence has not stopped. And what about those who incite or use these men to carry out such heinous actions? Who are these people and what is their agenda? More importantly, what is the Sindh government doing to uncover their identities and arrest them? Unfortunately, from the looks of it, not much as yet. Until the government and the over-arching intelligence apparatus realise that they need to come down hard on those who are involved in, or incite others to carry out, such wanton acts of violence, these target killings will not end and ordinary Pakistanis will continue to live in fear.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2010.
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