Adil Najam
This graphic video of the brutal murder of 19 year of Sarfraz Shah being confronted and shot dead by Rangers – supposedly because he was a robber refusing to surrender – is only the latest in a string of state and societal resort to violence that makes one wonder if we have gone totally mad: Lynchings in Sialkot, disappearances and killings in Balochistan, shaming of protesters in Rawalpindi, vigilante justice in Karachi, shootings over load-shedding in Multan, bombings of shrines in Lahore, slaying of a woman Minister in Gujranwala, slaughter of a Christian Minister in Islamabad, and a culture of anger and a validation of violence everywhere, including and most horrendously by those who are supposed to be the custodians of our safety and security.
We are including the graphic video of the brutal murder of Sarfraz Shah, but after the ‘fold’. Reader discretion is required. But if you can bear to watch it, then do so. Because it is well past time that we stop ignoring the rot that threatens our every pore.
What can one do except hold ones head in shame and sadness, and ask oneself: Have we gone totally mad?
Despite the anger and angst that swells within each vein, I would like to believe that we have not. I still believe in Pakistan and Pakistanis. Maybe I do so because I have no option but to believe so. But more than that I do so because I know that even though the insanity is all around me, there is even more disgust and dismay at this insanity. But it is no longer enough to show disgust and dismay. We must speak up – as so many actually are. And that is because I believe that we still have it within ourselves to rise against and reject this violence. If we do not, then who will?
What happened in Karachi was horrible but if justice will remain non-existent, this will always happen. Going to a court is nightmare for ordinary people, which only provide safety to the criminals and miscreants. LEAs are frustrated with this system wherein the justice system fails to punish outlaws.
http://ihaveadream-pakistan.blogspot.com/
It is the injustice in the society which is taking its toll. LEAs are totally frustrated as the judiciary is so corrupt and lethargic. Once it fails to deliver the justice, LEAs have to do somthing to punish the criminals. CJP should resign himself instead of asking for the resignations of others.
http://ihaveadream-pakistan.blogspot.com/2011/07/i mran-khan-only-choice.html
readinglord has already convicted Safaraz Shah in his imaginary court so what use does he have of arguments and evidence ?
@readinglord
so agreed with you…the kidnapped Pakistani sailors should be allowed to be killed like dogs. Their own navy cant do anything whereas the guy who got them freed is a dallal and a commission agent. The Pakistani men freed by Indian Navy are rotting in Tahar jail (which they should do for the rest of their lives) and the Indian guys freed by that Indian agent Burney have flown back home. Here is a video by their baigarat family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecXiE-pkMls&feature =player_embedded
@ben
Thank you dear for your objective appraisal of the case. The mindset of the paky public has been so distorted by the media and the NGOs that they react overly to the killings hyped by the electronic media but show little concern for the victims of the crime, especially those subjected to robbery of a house-breaking type. One has to go through that experience to realize what the law and order means when the humans turn to beasts and your life, honour and every thing is at their mercy. The shock one gets haunts him all his life to shatter his very image of a human being who can pounce upon you any time without any reason. Human rights become a joke. Only the robbers and the pirates seem to have the right to loot, rob, rape and kill the people.
Look at Ansar Burney who paid off the rights of Somalian pirates at the rate of half a million dollar per paky kidnapee out of the public money when the Indian navy got 5 pakies freed by an operation. God knows how much commission he got himself as a ‘dalaal’ (go-between) in this deal beside getting lot of publicity by high-profiling the case.