Daily Times

Sir: Referring to the recent murder of Irshad Ranjhani who was brutally killed in Karachi. The status of state seems surrendered in front of slaughters. It is not for the first that a person is killed and later titled thief or traitor. It’s a continuous practice to justify killings in Pakistan as there are numerous incidences reported earlier which is not only a serious human rights violation but a threat to national integrity.

The heinous act of murder is a question on the role of state representative whatsoever the reason was behind.

Such acts are the rationale behind the rise of ethnic wave and clear depiction of dual policy of state for its citizens on the basis of ethnicity. Extra judicial killings can make situation even worse in this scenario. Moreover, it can also be witnessed that national media has not covered the issue on human rights violation basis where as local media has given full coverage to it. Such dichotomies give space to ethnic upheaval where Pakistani citizen was murdered brutally and FIR was launched on the protest of Sindhi community.

It is responsibility of the state to provide justice to its citizens and protect them, respect them and their ethnic identity.

State needs to establish its writ to lessen the consequences of these games in the better interest of the national unity by treating all citizens equally.

NAUSHABA ABID

Islamabad

Published in Daily Times, February 24^th 2019.