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?
This is HARAM, unacceptable, MUST NOT BE TOLERATED
Even if he had raped my sister I have no right to shoot him – thats for the judicial system
When in a nation every person holding a gun becomes judge and executioner that is the beginning of the end of that nation
ASHAMED TO BE A PAKISTANI
I am not justifying the extra judicial killings, but the facts are that the person was not unarmed and was not innocent…as our beloved media is bragging so much about it…
Can you answer these two questions….You can listen to the video as my observations are not based on the media or rangers/police reports, I have heard these two statements in the video….
Q1 : In the video the guy said “Meray paas naqli gun hai”…
So what the hell was he doing with the fake gun in public? Doing “innocent” things… A gun is a gun, if someone comes in front of you with a fake gun, will you ask him to confirm if it is real or fake?
Q2: In the video the guy said “Mein Majboor tha”….
Majboor for what? looting? What kind of needs a 19, 20 year guy can have which force him to rob people on fake gun spot?
Let me take you to the other side of the world… see this video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH7R5m-PTZ0
Now, what do you say, should have been done with the fellow who killed the person in ATM???? A mad dog needs to be put to death, you don’t have to wait for him to bite and kill a person….the guy was caught by the police upon his neighbor information…Currently he is on bail (I read it in newspaper, but couldn’t find it on the Internet) and how long will it take to get the justice, you know the system….
We all know that no matter how enhanced the readership this blog has, the message it or Adil Najam tries to convey, can not reach the masses, very much like Sarfaraz Shah and the rangers who ordered to shoot and then actually shot them. Had Adil Najam and thousands of emigrants like him stayed in Pakistan and become agents of change by being within the society, the incidents like these would have significantly reduced.
The migrants to western countries, who were actually brains of Pakistan. evaded their responsibility, and left the unfortunate nation to brainless and heartless. That is exactly why we are faced with such madness the professor is whining about.
No doubt, the ranger personnel who pulled the trigger, and those who stood around him watching, have committed a crime. But to me, the real criminals are those who have vested such powers on them.
I have personally faced the barrel of the gun to my neck on many instances while traveling on the Indus highway south of Peshawar. I have been lucky each time. Many others have been shot and killed. Nobody has the courage to ask any questions because no media reported it LIVE. An incident 2 years back involved an FC personnel shooting at a car in Hayatabad, Peshawar. A 6 year old girl was injured and doctors had to amputate her leg. An FSc student was shot in the forehead in Dir next to a check-point when he was shouted at to stop but he could not hear them because of ear-phones.
There are countless examples of this high-handedness and trigger happy armed forces who are told that they can get away with it in the name of security, and they do. After all, it only takes a split-second for a suicide bomber to explode himself, so the response time of the security personnel has to be faster than this.
The real solution is not to make “an example” out of these rangers personnel. For the real solution, we have to agree upon the real problem. We have to go back and see where we have gone wrong, and correct it from there. The root of the evil starts with our policy in the war of terror, when it started 10 years ago. In these 10 years, the real initiator (USA) and the rest of the world have moved on. We haven’t. We won’t. We would have, if it were not for the billions of $$$ given to us for the wrong motives.
The video is awesome and chilling.
It is indeed a cold blooded murder in broad daylight.
The killers certainly need to be prosecuted