DeJa Vu all over again!

Deja Vu all over again!

There are few sane people in Pakistan who today would support the operation in East Pakistan. At that time however, there were even fewer voices that opposed it. Sad reality is that those who matter in Pakistan are a day late and a dollar short when it comes to common sense. Let’s assume for a moment that all ills in Pakistan are due to MQM. It’s MQM which has brazenly looted and plundered Pakistan. It is MQM which embezzled banks. It is MQM which got Pakistan involved in Afghan Jihad because Altaf Hussein was being showered with dollars. It is MQM which championed the cause of Jihadist indoctrination, the fruit of which are exploding in our streets and bazars and places of worship. Even if MQM has done all of that, those who are champions of democracy, civility and human rights, shouldn’t they raise their voice to accord MQM a day in court?

Shouldn’t media anchors, the epitome of intellect and everything which is holy and pure be a little perturbed that 10 human beings have been killed in cold blood while they were in custody ever since this operation in Karachi has started? 42 individuals apprehended by low enforcement agencies are missing persons for almost 6 months, never been produced in court, no agency fessing up about their whereabouts. Even if every single one of these MQM worker is a ruthless murderer, even then, shouldn’t the state follow the course of law? Why is that state and its functionaries insist on opening front after front and making the already volatile situation in the country worse?

On one hand, we are tripping over each other to embrace the killers from Taleban, who brazenly accept responsibility to slaughter our soldiers, play soccer with their human heads, and kill women, children and old with utmost disdain. And on the other hand, the same ruling elite are hell bent to repeat the colossal failure of 1992 operation.

Balochistan is on the fringe of a complete breakdown, majority of the province is rife with sectarianism and loud demands of cessation and instead of addressing the real concerns of Baloch and bringing them back to the fold, Islamabad, pindi and LaRkana have decided to alienate the urdu speaking majority of urban Sind!

600 MQM workers have been arrested so far and to the credit of MQM leadership, they have taken the hit with grace but they also live amongst people and there is a tipping point where things will get out of their hand as well if sense doesn’t prevail.

We ask honorable chief justice Tassaduq Hussein Jeelani to pay heed to the cries of mothers, sisters and wives who have suffered unconstitutionally at the hands of Law enforcement agencies. The manner, tone and tenor with which Sind Police chief has conducted so far is shameful. We the citizens of Karachi demand that he sheds this cloak of unabashed prejudice and by all means arrest people, but please produce them in courts and follow the course of law.

It is unfortunate that after 65 years of inception, individuals still are targeted and even killed on the basis of their ethnicity, their patriotism questioned and they are persecuted for no other reason except that they are not sons of soil. Establishment must understand that citizens of Urban Sind are reasonable people, but we are not rollovers. We will stand up against injustice and raise our voices when Law enforcement agencies resort to extra judicial genocide.

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