Sir: After the bomb blast which almost killed Justice Maqbool Baqar of the
Sindh High Court, I was deeply impressed by the professionalism displayed by
the DIG, the Sindh Chief Secretary and Mr Sharjeel Memon (who, if I remember
correctly, is a member of the Sindh government or non-government, its rightful
name, since it has yet to show that it is able to govern).
The smart DIG explained that whatever he had said was not final, but it seemed
that it may or may not have been a suicide attack, and it may or may not have
been a remote controlled bomb placed in a motorcycle or in a car. He said
nothing about why it is that though our policemen very diligently search every
motorcycle and car, they were not able to spot this motorcycle or car. Maybe
they were on the lookout for vehicles with unveiled women passengers at the
time, because they never see such creatures in their villages. He didn’t say
why the cops were not able to intercept the bomb-carrying motorcycle, even
though they stop hundreds of motorcyclists daily, extracting money from those
drivers who don’t have all the documents required to be carried on their
persons.
The Chief Secretary was also very professional, asking people to cooperate and
to stay away from the site of the blast, but he did not say why his government
has not been able to do anything to prevent these blasts, which have been
occurring regularly for more than 20 years now.
As for the minister, he said the usual stuff about how no one would be allowed
to carry out more bomb blasts (as if the terrorists needed his permission), but
again, did not explain why his party’s government, which has been in charge of
Karachi for the past five years, did practically nothing to improve security in
the city. Perhaps he thinks that improving security means allotting six to 10
police mobile vans to every parliamentarian and VIP, rather than using
policemen on the streets, to be on the alert for suspicious vehicles. Oh no,
that would mean asking the police to serve the people, which (as every
government functionary believes) is against the spirit of the constitution. I
believe that it would be a good thing if the province’s capital is shifted to
Larkana or Nawabshah. At least we’ll have more police on the streets rather
than dozing outside the houses of our ministers and VIPs.
SHAKIR
LAKHANI
Karachi
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