THE hanging of murderers and terrorists is a positive step towards providing justice to the bereaved families who were destroyed by these criminals. Will justice be served to only a few through these hangings?

Terrorism grew in the country because of denial of justice to the aggrieved and tortured. My husband, Dr Muhammad Saleem Chauhdry, ex-principal of Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (Karachi), was killed on March 25, 2005.

Since then I have been knocking at every door for justice to the educationist who sacrificed his life fighting against evils and corruption and who was awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz in recognition of his services to the country.

It is the foremost responsibility of the government and law enforcers to arrest the culprits involved in the murder of Dr Chauhdry on which suo motu action had been taken by the then chief justice of Pakistan.

Ten years have passed, yet the killers of my husband are free to play with the lives of others.

So far all our appeals have fallen on deaf ears as not a single arrest has been made. Not just that but my youngest daughter, Nabiha Chauhdry, a CSP officer, who was following in her father’s footsteps in serving the nation, lost her life tragically and suspiciously last October in the CSS Academy, Lahore. Justice once again has been denied to my family in my daughter’s case.

Is this what lies in store for those who lay down their lives fighting against corruption and evil? Is this how justice is denied to bereaved families? Is this the fate of all those honest, dedicated and loyal people of our country who try to clean their organisations, in particular, and the country as a whole, from corruption, dishonesty and nepotism? Will I ever be granted justice having lost not one but two family members?

Simeen Saleem

Karachi

Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2015

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