Sialkot & Interior Minister

In a live tv show the anchor person and the participants were at their wits’ end as to how could the Interior Minister pronounce in a show of vengeance that the perpetrators of the gruesome crime would be served with the severest punishment and that too at the same spot where they had brutally lynched the two brothers. While seriously and earnestly expecting the law to take its course, we all know that what the Minister said can’t be implemented under the law unless the very people responsible for the law think there is none. The minister like an ‘astute’ politician got hold of the unfortunate opportunity and with a display of charged emotions made the statement for the gallery to gain political mileage.

Dear countrymen, that’s the kind of rulers we are blessed with and we have to suffer them, like it or not.

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)