WHAT happened in Sahiwal has left a question mark over the way law enforcement agencies are run in the country.

The entire nation is mourning the loss of a family and, understandably, there is a deep frustration over what is happening to the Quaid’s nation.

I fail to understand why a man in power like the governor of Punjab would claim that the family was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

This clearly shows that the government was in cahoots with perpetrators and favours such brutal acts.

According to a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, there were more than 3,000 fake encounters from 2014 to 2018 – a very high figure. This raises several questions about the country’s administration and accountability.

I would like to know why such ‘encounters’ are taking place and why people are being killed without being identified? In these encounters, innocents are being labelled and killed in the name of terrorism, just look at what happened to poor Naqebullah Mehsud. May he rest in peace.

Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted that the children of the victims of the Sahiwal incident would be taken care of by the state. But it is not possible for the state to love these children like their parents would.

Wajahat Abro
Shikarpur

Published in Dawn, January 27th, 2019