Bani Adam
Senator (1k+ posts)
Re: Punjab Police surrender Guns to terrorists to shoot people.Good Governance?
Its not the first time in our 65 years history that the Ashura happened to fall on a Friday and certainly not the first Ashura procession ever in this part of the world. But the Rawalpindi incident has thoroughly exposed the inefficiency and incompetence of the Punjab police, district administration as well as the lower judiciary (judicial magistrates/Ilaqa magistrates who are now supposed to be the overall supervisors/monitors of various police stations after the separation of the Judiciary).
Ild say, hats off to the KP police who have borne the brunt of violence head on and courageously for the past 10 years. And here we see a coward and corrupt police force, largely comprising of political appointments made by CTBT since 1985, which not just capitulated on the first shout but capitulated big time by even surrendering their weapons to the mob before ducking for cover. Voila! The enemy is testing your preparedness and here you are..... if these are the omens, one could imagine how fast could be the collapse of the state if violence ever hits multiple cities in Punjab/Sindh. what a shame!!
One wonders though whether the Rawalpindi police/district administration had put in place a Special Security Plan for Ashura, as it is supposed to be for all Muharram majalis/processions every year? And if it failed, why? Were the judicial magistrate/Ilaqa magistrate/DSP of Raja Bazar/Ganjmandi personally escorting the procession, and if not why?
Or was the Rawalpindi police/administration too busy complying with CTBT orders for new demarcations, halqa bandis and jor tor ahead the LB polls and the Ashura Security Plan didnt fit in with the administration's priorities??
High Time to depoliticize the police and administration ASAP - completely and across the board, and return to a rules-based governance with equality before law, if we are to save what is left of Jinnahs Pakistan.
Its not the first time in our 65 years history that the Ashura happened to fall on a Friday and certainly not the first Ashura procession ever in this part of the world. But the Rawalpindi incident has thoroughly exposed the inefficiency and incompetence of the Punjab police, district administration as well as the lower judiciary (judicial magistrates/Ilaqa magistrates who are now supposed to be the overall supervisors/monitors of various police stations after the separation of the Judiciary).
Ild say, hats off to the KP police who have borne the brunt of violence head on and courageously for the past 10 years. And here we see a coward and corrupt police force, largely comprising of political appointments made by CTBT since 1985, which not just capitulated on the first shout but capitulated big time by even surrendering their weapons to the mob before ducking for cover. Voila! The enemy is testing your preparedness and here you are..... if these are the omens, one could imagine how fast could be the collapse of the state if violence ever hits multiple cities in Punjab/Sindh. what a shame!!
One wonders though whether the Rawalpindi police/district administration had put in place a Special Security Plan for Ashura, as it is supposed to be for all Muharram majalis/processions every year? And if it failed, why? Were the judicial magistrate/Ilaqa magistrate/DSP of Raja Bazar/Ganjmandi personally escorting the procession, and if not why?
Or was the Rawalpindi police/administration too busy complying with CTBT orders for new demarcations, halqa bandis and jor tor ahead the LB polls and the Ashura Security Plan didnt fit in with the administration's priorities??
High Time to depoliticize the police and administration ASAP - completely and across the board, and return to a rules-based governance with equality before law, if we are to save what is left of Jinnahs Pakistan.