PML-N MPA Rana Shoaib Idrees attacked a police station along with his 50 henchmen, thrashed police personnel on duty including a sub-inspector and got detainees freed by force from the police station. This incident gives a clear picture of the law and order situation in the province.

There are reports by an intelligence agency that level serious charges against the MPA, with his goons receiving extortion money from wagon stands of the area.

Recently, it was reported in the press that a number of senior police officers were transferred on charges of corruption in different districts of the province.

There was another report of a gruesome incident of the ‘chopping off’ a teenage boy’s arm by his landlord’s son in Gujrat. It is time the authorities took note.

Major (r) Mumtaz Bashir
Lahore

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2014