THIS refers to the report ‘Man who filmed foreign hunters found tortured to death at farmhouse’ (Nov 4). Our society has become brutal and violent and this was once again proved when a young man from a village in Thatta was brutally tortured to death in a farmhouse in Karachi’s Malir area.

Nazim Sajawal Jokhio was not murdered owing to some property dispute or over some financial matter. Instead, according to the report, he was murdered after he recently filmed some foreign hunters in his village.

According to his relatives, after making the said video, he talked about his life being in danger, for he was being threatened of dire consequences by ‘certain elements’. The victim’s brother has alleged that certain legislators were involved in the murder as the video included footage of their foreign guests.

A poor man, who wished to have a better life for his children, who was a son and a husband, was mercilessly clubbed to death merely on filming some illegitimate hunting by foreigners who happened to be the friends of some lawmakers. This is disgusting. While people have been protesting against the murder, there is a bigger question the people should be asking those at the helm of affairs: for how long will the people bear the brutality of the demons of feudalism?

How long will mothers have to lose their sons every time the fragile ego of some barbarous landlord is hurt? How long will we have to remain silent and protect ourselves and our children from these bloodsuckers who use every brutal tactic to force us to remain submissive? How many more corpses do we need to realise that this system is nothing but a failure to save humanity from the clutches of barbarians and that we need to get rid of them for good?

To those who are in the corridors of power, this may be just another murder of a common man, but we need to find answers to these questions, do some soul-searching and a lot of thinking if we really want ourselves to be considered a civilised nation.

Rabail Ashfaque
Tandojam

Published in Dawn, November 9th, 2021