THIS refers to Zahid Hussain’s article ‘Death by stealth’ (Aug 12). He talks about one political party (of Karachi mainly) as being a victim of extra-judicial executions and in a very well-reasoned and documented piece he tells us why it is so.

He lays blame, and rightly so, on a failed criminal justice system. He has struck all the correct notes, said all the correct things, but one thing is missing — that is how to rectify a failed criminal justice system.

I am not a lawyer, and probably neither is Zahid Hussain, but what can be said safely enough is that a team of judicial experts should study our books of criminal justice and the PPC and suggest changes to it that would bring the books abreast with modern day living.

S. Ahmed

Peshawar

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2015

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