He may have been a dacoit. The allegations against him may have been true. But the way he was punished for his crime—if he really was a criminal—indicates that our law-enforcement agencies could kill me, you, your brother, my brother or anyone and call it an encounter.
The killing of Sarfaraz Shah was not the only crime our state apparatus committed in this whole episode. The list is long. The second crime the state committed against him and his family was that a case was not registered immediately. Police paid no attention to his relatives demand for an FIR against the Rangers officials. The third was that they received no attention from any minister even when they protested with the body outside the Chief Minister’s House. Despite being in the city, Rehman Malik did not bother to visit his relatives. And the fourth crime—which is a crime against all our society—is that the camera man who filmed the killing and released it on television is being given threats. It is a crime against all our society because it is an effort to prevent people from exposing state’s crime against citizens in future. No one knows how long this list of crime against Shah might be. The state is expected to do everything to weaken the stance of the family.
Rehman Malik has already declared him a criminal as if he is the supreme court of Pakistan. As if he is the only court in Pakistan. He has believed the allegations against Sarfaraz as if he saw it all himself. If justice is to be served like this, why establish hundreds of courts in the country and spend tens of billions of rupees on the judicial system? Dear people, Rehman Malik can do it alone!
Sharjeel Memon is a stupid man. He kept trying to justify this killing and kept saying, “I am not justifying it.” He should have said one thing and stuck to that. Saying two opposite things in the same breath, what the hell!
The problem is we have given guns to people who enjoy using it. Guns should be given only to those who have been well trained to use it only as a last resort. These Rangers enjoy hunting the common man of this country. They are barbarians.
Not long ago newspapers published pictures in which a Rangers official was seen putting his foot on a fallen protester’s chest. If action had been taken against that Rangers official for treating a protester like that, perhaps Sarfaraz Shah would have been alive today to face the allegations against him in a court.
In the recent past, they killed a man who was protesting against target killings in the city. The video of Rangers officials firing straight was repeatedly shown on television channels on Wednesday night. Was that loss of life unavoidable? Is it necessary to kill a few of the protesters to force protesters to disperse? These people are barbarians. They have no regard for human life. They have regard only for their own lives.
We need to protest this killing as much as we can, otherwise it may be me, you, my brother, your brother or any innocent one the next time the Rangers guns fire shots.
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