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Killing at Will
How pathetic it is to read in Dawn
and Tribune that today Saturday24th December, 2016, a 23 years old
taxi driver has been gunned down to death in Kohistan by Rangers and that too
on a petty issue. An argument developed between the deceased taxi driver and
Rangers and as a result the driver has been killed by Rangers. Locals siding
with the killed taxi driver protested and blocked the highway disrupting import
and export to China which will inflict monetary loss to us.
Time and again it has been reported
in our different media outlets that Rangers firesat will which must be
controlled and cannot be given full free hand to open fire on unarmed people
whatsoever. Rangers did bring peace in Karachi which is very
much commendable to be honest so from that point of view the nation backs
Rangers but at the same time it does not mean that that it can be given full
freedom to kill and injure innocent people on the personal whims of the person
equipped with a gun.I suggest that an officer not less than Major rank must be
obliged to visit the scene and be responsible to personally assess the
situation and if he is fully convinced that the situation has become so much explosive
that it cannot be brought under control and Maj is left with no option but to
order for firing and not otherwise. Perhaps at this point of time, there is no
such like mechanism and hence even NCO what to talk of JCO opens fires purely
on his personal whims which simply cannot be allowed come what may. When Maj
authorizes to open fire then he is the one answerable but in absence of any
such mechanism none can be personified to be held accountable when someone is
injured or killed byRangers. Who ordered to open fire in Kohistan killing the
innocent youth is my simplest question and its answer can solve the riddle?
Human life is not only the
most precious but also given once and once only and hence the life of even the poorest
unemployed daily wage earner very rightly demands and commands that it must be
respected and protected under all circumstances whatsoever and it cannot be
subjected to irrational firing. Please do enlighten me if I am wrong which I am
not. Who opposes me why and where is my
question which needs an answer? IqbalHadiZaidi / Kuwait
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