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Praise for the Indian system ..most grudgingly from a Pak newspaper..
Taking our country back
There is a reason why our political leadership, belonging to all parties, has stooped so low that the All Parties Conference (APC) in its resolution refused to call the terrorists for what they were: terrorists. Instead the APC urged for dialogue with the terrorists who refused to respect the country\'s Constitution, territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Now the Taliban are demanding release of over four thousand terrorist languishing in our jails. Previous experience has shown that freed terrorists start killing innocent people the moment they get chance after stepping out of prisons. Instead of making panels of judges who can hear cases without revealing their identity or make the same arrangement for witnesses so that the terrorists are given due punishment without fear of any repercussions, the fear is that the government may release these killers on the demand of the Taliban leadership and with the backing of leaders of all political parties.
Our government may do the above because all those years we have been living as a free nation; the people have not strongly urged the government to face the criminals head on. Instead, we have allowed authorities to compromise on principles while the criminals spread their activities to previously untouched areas of our private and public sectors. Had the people shown their extreme anger against the corrupt elements in our police, tax and revenue departments early when we achieved independence; the sleaze of bribery, mismanagement of funds would not have penetrated our health, education and many other departments.
Our legislatures, also, would not have dared pass laws aimed at facilitating the criminals, instead of punishing them. Unnecessary long delays in criminal cases would not have become tolerable. Nor would intentional tempering with evidence and misguiding statements in courts by investigators and law enforcing agencies in general have become acceptable. With each passing day our tolerance-level against illegal activities has increased.
So much so that government officials, including the high ups in the election commission helped steal our mandate on voting day and we didn\'t come out in revolt against this atrocity inflicted on the whole nation.
We, rather, nudged each other to forget the incidents of rigging; accept the inaccurate results and move on. We didn\'t even demand that the officials and civilians involved in the rigging be punished so that such incidents didn\'t take place in the future.
We tolerate it when infant girls, middle aged and even old women are murdered, raped, kidnapped or paraded naked in the streets; we endure it when the police most often than not refuse to register FIRs of such incidents: We, who are the real owners of this country, suffer all these acts of grave injustice in our society in silence.
But here is a bright example: It took the whole justice system, including investigation and prosecution right up to the Supreme Court, just nine months to award final death sentences to all the four culprits involved in a gang rape. Unfortunately, this bright example comes from India. We may not like anything Indian but in this instance our praise has to go to the New Delhi police, the prosecutors there and the Indian judges.
Much of the praise, however, for the quick justice dispensed to the criminals in the New Delhi gang rape is due to the students, activists, the Indian media and common men and women who expressed so much outrage that the justice system there had no course left for delay or wavering away from justice. In a way the ordinary Indians by showing strong unity with the rape victim reclaimed India and asserted their right as the real and only stakeholders in country. Small wonder, Indian officials and politicians are scared that people will react strongly, if they are involved in talks with the many separatists who do not respect and accept the Indian Constitutions, territorial integrity and sovereignty of their country.
In Pakistan, however, even if rapists, murderers, kidnappers, target killers, robbers, dons of gambling dens, drug smugglers, adulterator of edibles, unlicensed manufacturers of fake and harmful medicines, known tax evaders, land grabbers and individuals with assets beyond their known sources of income, are caught the investigators perplexingly fail to find convincing evidence; the prosecutors mysteriously are unable to present convincing arguments even if they have substantial evidence; as a result the perpetrators making victory signs go out of courtrooms as free persons. We, the people, have never acted as the real and only stakeholders of our country.
We have never tried to take our country back. Our leaders are unafraid and know that the people will not express outrage if the government engage in talks with the terrorists and ignore the tens of thousands of murders of innocent men, women and children.
They also know that the nation will not be extremely agitated if the government makes light of the martyrdom of thousands of our valiant soldiers who sacrificed their lives in defence of Pakistan. Such state of affairs will continue until, we the people take back our country; also terrorists will always be there if we pamper them instead of annihilating them.
Taking our country back
There is a reason why our political leadership, belonging to all parties, has stooped so low that the All Parties Conference (APC) in its resolution refused to call the terrorists for what they were: terrorists. Instead the APC urged for dialogue with the terrorists who refused to respect the country\'s Constitution, territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Now the Taliban are demanding release of over four thousand terrorist languishing in our jails. Previous experience has shown that freed terrorists start killing innocent people the moment they get chance after stepping out of prisons. Instead of making panels of judges who can hear cases without revealing their identity or make the same arrangement for witnesses so that the terrorists are given due punishment without fear of any repercussions, the fear is that the government may release these killers on the demand of the Taliban leadership and with the backing of leaders of all political parties.
Our government may do the above because all those years we have been living as a free nation; the people have not strongly urged the government to face the criminals head on. Instead, we have allowed authorities to compromise on principles while the criminals spread their activities to previously untouched areas of our private and public sectors. Had the people shown their extreme anger against the corrupt elements in our police, tax and revenue departments early when we achieved independence; the sleaze of bribery, mismanagement of funds would not have penetrated our health, education and many other departments.
Our legislatures, also, would not have dared pass laws aimed at facilitating the criminals, instead of punishing them. Unnecessary long delays in criminal cases would not have become tolerable. Nor would intentional tempering with evidence and misguiding statements in courts by investigators and law enforcing agencies in general have become acceptable. With each passing day our tolerance-level against illegal activities has increased.
So much so that government officials, including the high ups in the election commission helped steal our mandate on voting day and we didn\'t come out in revolt against this atrocity inflicted on the whole nation.
We, rather, nudged each other to forget the incidents of rigging; accept the inaccurate results and move on. We didn\'t even demand that the officials and civilians involved in the rigging be punished so that such incidents didn\'t take place in the future.
We tolerate it when infant girls, middle aged and even old women are murdered, raped, kidnapped or paraded naked in the streets; we endure it when the police most often than not refuse to register FIRs of such incidents: We, who are the real owners of this country, suffer all these acts of grave injustice in our society in silence.
But here is a bright example: It took the whole justice system, including investigation and prosecution right up to the Supreme Court, just nine months to award final death sentences to all the four culprits involved in a gang rape. Unfortunately, this bright example comes from India. We may not like anything Indian but in this instance our praise has to go to the New Delhi police, the prosecutors there and the Indian judges.
Much of the praise, however, for the quick justice dispensed to the criminals in the New Delhi gang rape is due to the students, activists, the Indian media and common men and women who expressed so much outrage that the justice system there had no course left for delay or wavering away from justice. In a way the ordinary Indians by showing strong unity with the rape victim reclaimed India and asserted their right as the real and only stakeholders in country. Small wonder, Indian officials and politicians are scared that people will react strongly, if they are involved in talks with the many separatists who do not respect and accept the Indian Constitutions, territorial integrity and sovereignty of their country.
In Pakistan, however, even if rapists, murderers, kidnappers, target killers, robbers, dons of gambling dens, drug smugglers, adulterator of edibles, unlicensed manufacturers of fake and harmful medicines, known tax evaders, land grabbers and individuals with assets beyond their known sources of income, are caught the investigators perplexingly fail to find convincing evidence; the prosecutors mysteriously are unable to present convincing arguments even if they have substantial evidence; as a result the perpetrators making victory signs go out of courtrooms as free persons. We, the people, have never acted as the real and only stakeholders of our country.
We have never tried to take our country back. Our leaders are unafraid and know that the people will not express outrage if the government engage in talks with the terrorists and ignore the tens of thousands of murders of innocent men, women and children.
They also know that the nation will not be extremely agitated if the government makes light of the martyrdom of thousands of our valiant soldiers who sacrificed their lives in defence of Pakistan. Such state of affairs will continue until, we the people take back our country; also terrorists will always be there if we pamper them instead of annihilating them.
