Will sky spilt apart if none is killed in Karachi?
For weeks and not just days we have read in continuity without any gap in between in all newspapers whether English or Urdu and seen on different television channels that people were being killed at will in the sprawling cosmopolitan city of Karachi but then during the last two days there was nothing of the sort so I thought eventually PPP succeeded in restoring the face of Karachi as killing free city but today at 1000 my time and 1200 PST on Fri 30th November, 2012 I am proved to be wrong. While seeing the latest news on net at The News which I do almost check on 24 hours basis in any case I read horrifying news that today 3 persons have been killed helped in Karachi which is very much shocking indeed and despite the fact that I had something on my mind to do right at this point of time I was so much moved that I simply could not help picking my pen to pen my candid opinion on the subject.
Death is death and there cannot be any justification whatsoever for death unless there are some compelling reasons which normally are construed to cause deaths like old age, acute sickness, horrible accident, family enmity, fire, war, professional jealousy, sectarian clashes and natural disaster to name a few but very much surprisingly none of the above reasons could be found in the news reporting the death on 3 persons in Karachi. The details are that unknown men attacked a shop where they gunned down the shop owner and injure two other persons but why and how it could happen? What could be the fault of the ill fated shop owner that he had to die for no reason and rhyme? Had he committed any such heinous crime which could be punished by none less than death is yet another question? Why the two other men were injured along with the shop owner is also a question? I have my very serious doubts that none has answers to these questions whether it could be you or the killers themselves.
The news further says that another person named Nazar Abbas was gunned down on Shaheed e Millat Road while he was with his daughter to be dropped at her school. His daughter has been injured in the incident. This awfully shocking news from many different angles and I wish its intrinsic depth and severity can be realized by those who matter in connection with law and order situation. The news itself says that both the innocent victims (father and daughter) were together when the saddest incident took place. Just keep hand on your heart to feel its beat and then see what could be the scenario. Father is killed right before the eyes of the daughter who herself is not fully grown up as yet otherwise she had been going to a college or university and not a school. What could be her mental state of affairs to see her own father being gunned down right before her own eyes? How much she had cursed herself for asking her father to drop her at school? Had she not been with her to her school she had not lost her father alike? Hadn’t she been traumatized to the maximum for not being of any help to save the life of her father when he is gunned down in front of her? What lesson she did learn this morning in Karachi is the most baffling question of the day and I wish you have an answer which I very much doubt in any case or prove I am wrong?
Youth aged 20 years only and named Sohail was found dead in Saaedabad completes the total if three fatalities of the day. Who killed Sohail is not known at all and perhaps will not be known in either case? How unfortunate it is that just a year before he was none but a teenager which is believed to be one of the prime time in everybody’s life and hardly had he entered post teen life that he lost his life? I need not elucidate as to what Sohail had thought about his life but the fact remains that he like me, you and others must have planned to enjoy very peaceful life with his wife and children but alas it had been nothing but a day dream for him. He died too pre maturely to be honest and his untimely death simply cannot be condemned even in the strongest possible words.
Lastly the same news says that a local journalist Muzaffar Geelani was attacked while he was on Qaidabad flyover whereby he sustained some gun shorts and has been shifted to Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center (JPMC) for necessary treatment. The last line of the news reads saying that there had been some firing incident in Kathi Pahari area as well where some unnamed one person has been reported to be injured.
Where is Karachi police? What about the rangers posted in Karachi? Where is the Home Minister of Sindh? What about the loud claims made by Interior Minister Malik Rehman that ‘sub theek hay Karachi main’? Will today be the last day of killing in Karachi at least for this year if not thereafter? Who will be held liable and punished if another one dies in Karachi is the question which itself demands a categorical answer?
Will sky split apart if none is killed in Karachi?
Iqbal Hadi Zaidi / Kuwait