SC orders arrest of Sialkot police officials
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed for immediate arrest of absconding police officials involved in Sialkot incident in which two brothers were lynched by a mob in their presence. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday set Sept 6 as deadline…
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The lynching of two brothers in Sialkot invoked the sentiments of the
entire nation against its perpetrators and police personnel who
allowed it to happen. No civilised society can condone such
behaviour.What is most disturbing in this entire episode is that the
police encouraged the crowd to go ahead with this frenzy. It is well
known that the chief minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, supported
extra-judicial killings of perceived criminals by the police in his
previous tenure. It seems that the current Punjab set-up is
perpetuating the same policy, since all the police officers involved
in the Sialkot case are closely linked to the PML-N. However, the
repetition of this policy this time round is not going to do any good
to the chief minister or his party. If this government does not set an
example of adherence to the rule of law, then anarchy is just round
the corner. Regrettably, this is not an exclusively Punjab phenomenon.
It is a culture and attitude that is creeping incrementally into the
entire Pakistani society. Mian Shehbaz Sharif must revisit his policiy
and shun the system of extra judicial killing as it is fanning the
fears of violence in the society. In fact this is in no way justifies
taking the law into one’s own hands and law enforcement agencies
becoming a party to it. Impartial investigations and justice must
follow.