Dear, is the Pakistani justice system really that bad or are we just talking about exaggeration? And how big a problem is the organized crime in cities such as Karachi? Are there criminal gangs such as the Sicilian Mafia, Yakuza in Japan, Chinese Mafia, Russian Mafia, all the Latin American gangs etc. present in Pakistan? Are we talking about such organized and big groups?
Has the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Pakistan not raised this issue with the Pakistani leadership? KSA-Pakistani ties are excellent and close so both countries such cooperate on such matters.
I gather from all this that he is probably not captured.
Its bad - If you know someone & you've got the money for it...you'd probably go scot free !
Heck about a year ago - a 18-20 year old guy was killed by another guy (presumably an acquaintance) on reacting angrily when that other guy & his friend were teasing the guy's sister ! So this 'other guy' - the son of a landlord & a very influential person - goes to the guy & its his sister's weeding & shoots him to death !
Then the other guy runs off to Dubai whilst the guy's dad (a police officer) gets a case registered against the other guy !
No one gives a foOk for a time before the Media, the Civil Society & most of us - the normal activists - take him the guy's cause & ask for the other guy to be prosecuted !
The Pressure gets the Chief Justice of Pakistan into the Case with him demanded that the Other Guy be brought back from Dubai so the Other Guy is indeed brought back & prosecuted & sentenced to death along with his friend/servant (whatever he was) !
But the Other Guy says that hes Under-Age & a medical test confirms that he isn't 18 yet so he does't get Life but his friend does !
After a while the family of the guy happen to 'forgive' the other guy of the murder in return for blood money - I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact the guy's dad was a simple police officer with daughters in an unforgiving society if you're in trouble & not particularly connected & the other guy's dad was an influential feudal landlord with sh*t loads of cash & influence !
Thankfully the Supreme Court has said that the Other Guy & his friend cannot be forgiven & the case remains open - Lets see what happens !
But this is one of hundreds if not thousands of such cases in Pakistan !
I've even heard of people having served a life sentence in jails on stealing something worth as trivial as $10 not because they were sentenced to life but because they stayed behind bars for years till their turn came up for their case to be heard by the Court !
Organized Crime in other cities of the country aren't that big a problem but Karachi for the past few years is like the Sao Paulo of a time when organized criminals were running things there !
The problem is that those in Government over there are often alleged to be in-bed with the Criminals therefore one can imagine the ease with which the criminals are able to move about unhindered !
What we need is a Targeted Operation in Karachi to take care of them !
Right now the Rangers - a paramilitary force of the Pakistan Army - are conducting an operation in Karachi but they're without any teeth & they are working under the same Government that governs Karachi so go figure !
If the Army steps in, like it did in the '90s - No one will be spared but the Army is, right now, busy with a lot of other sh*t to commit itself there as well !