PPP Co-Chairman and former president Asif Zardari’s open support to absconder Rao Anwar has, in all fareness, not come as a surprise to many.

This has only given credence to reports that the wanted police official had the blessings of a big political figure. Otherwise he would not have been untraceable for so long.

He had got protective bail before arrest from court, which has now been cancelled after he obviously intentionally did not turn up at the Supreme Court.

Mr Zardari has paid tributes to the fugitive police officer as a ‘brave kid’ who is involved in numerous police encounters. Were those murdered criminals or innocents, only Allah knows.

People believe that until the PPP is in power in Sindh, the fugitive senior police officer cannot be traced anywhere in the country, what to talk of his home province. The tribute paid by the former president to a controversial police officer is regrettable, to say the least.

M.A.H. Sheikh

Lahore

Published in Dawn, February 25th, 2018