I was sad to see the above picture in which MQM`s Haider Abbas Rizvi with both of his hands together,
having tears in the eyes, is bent on his knees before the father of the
deceased officer bearer of MQM who was allegedly arrested by the
law-enforcement Agencies and then his dead body was found from Gulshan-e-Hadid
after one and a half month.
It has been very common that whether
it is a matter of joy or sorrow, MQM`s representatives and the members of
co-ordination committee do participate in them and make the people realize that
they are with them. Similarly, the murder of Muhammad Asif was the occasion
where MQM workers and leaders had arrived. The question is, was Mr. Haider
Abbas Rizvi the chief of the Law-enforcement agencies whose prime
responsibility is to ensure security of the citizen of the country? Or his
party was having the ministry of Interior in Sindh which controls the Police
and the Rangers? Why was he so much remorseful and apologetic? To tell the
truth, he neither was the chief of the Police and Rangers nor was his party MQM
having the interior ministry, it was the expression of the pain and the
helplessness that he was feeling over the loss of his party worker.
The very disappointing aspect here is
that when Haider Abbas Rizvi as a political leader can express so much
penitence over the loss of his people, what about the reaction of the Interior
Minister and the Chiefs of all the Law-enforcement Agencies whose job was to
ensure security of the lives and property of the people? Were they not the
people who were appointed and authorized primarily for the sake of providing
protection to the people? Why have they not achieved their only task yet
despite spending so many years and millions of rupees? On top of it, did the
people ever witness any minister and chief of Police, Rangers or Army
expressing his remorse in this way over the killings of so many people in the
way as Haider Abbas Rizvi did? When no, why not? If the LEA`s do not perform
their duties honestly, who else will provide security to the people?
A couple of years ago, one of the
well-known Police officers Ch. Aslam was attacked at his house in Defence in
which luckily he had a narrow escape. All of his family members too remained
unhurt. Yet, immediately after the attack, in an interview to a TV channel, Ch.
Aslam reacted in this way,
“I know very well who was behind this
coward attack. I am not frightened at all. Leaving aside what the police do to
the attackers, I myself will teach them a lesson that even their generations
will not forget.”
These truly exposed the feelings he
was having against the terrorist because of the attack in which he faced no
loss.
We know very well that our country,
especially Karachi has been the victim of the lawlessness for decades. Thousands
of people have been lost their lives. But, not a single time, the people saw
any police or Rangers officer taking the killings of common people personally
to their hearts and swearing to take revenge from the terrorists. Why is this so?
Are the common people inferior to the family members of the LEA`s? Not speaking
of taking revenge from the terrorists, can they not even go to the doors of the
victims to share their sorrow as the MQM representatives do? That is the
attitude which is creating very serious misunderstanding among the people about
the LEA`s. On one hand, the poor performance of the Police and the Rangers has
already questioned their credibility, on the other hand, their arrogance is
also turning the misunderstanding into a more dangerous feeling.
Therefore, the DG Rangers and IG/DIG Police
need to review their attitudes now. They should bear in minds that ensuring the
protection of the lives and property of the common people is their prime
responsibility for which they were appointed in Karachi. Therefore, they will
have to act according to their oath and the terms of appointment so that peace
can be restored in the city and people`s hearts can be won. Otherwise, neither
the people nor God would accept any excuses.
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