PAKISTANIS are deeply wounded by the heart-wrenching Sahiwal incident. The faces of the traumatised children will continue to haunt us for decades.

One is forced to ponder why such incidents have become frequent in our country. If the future of our coming generations is to be assured and secured, it is time our police and other law enforcement agencies are taught to behave like civilised beings instead of Gandasa-bearing goons

Aysha Akram
Lahore

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ONCE again Pakistan is in the grip of police brutality — the heavily-armed personnel of the CTD opening fire on a family, killing four including a woman and her daughter. Such happenings have become the norm in our country.

The people voted for change that would bring law and order, not this. The prime minister should take drastic action. We demand a thorough investigation and severe punishment for the culprits.

Javed Mohsin Hashim
Hyderabad

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THE entire nation is saddened by the Sahiwal tragedy.

What breaks every citizen’s heart is the ill-fated family’s surviving small children telling the media how their father pleaded for their lives.

All Pakistanis grieve along with these children and demand of the government to ensure the blood of innocent citizens does not go unpunished.

Nasir Soomro
Karachi

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THERE are days where watching the news sends a chill down your spine. The Sahiwal incident was one of those tragedies.

After watching the video of those children and the ordeal they had to go through, the whole nation is in a state of shock and is grieving with them.

The incident itself and the aftermath leave many questions unanswered. Nobody, not even the law enforcement agencies, have the right to kill an individual in this manner, let alone murder an entire family.

I feel it is time for the police and LEA to change their ways. They need to behave in a more civilised manner with the citizens they are supposed to protect.

Their professional duty is to serve and protect, not harm us.

I hope that the authorities responsible will give justice to the guilty instead of brushing it under the carpet.

Waqar Ahmed
Sahiwal

Published in Dawn, January 24th, 2019