Everyone must be presumed innocent until proven guilty and MQM is right in asserting that its media trial on the basis of such report is unfair. This JIT report has no evidentiary value for the Baldia case as Rizwan Qureshi’s statement is based on hearsay. Doesn’t this logic apply to sectarian groups and Karachi? We have now read confessions of a serial killer who claimed association with MQM (which MQM denied) and alleged that the Baldia colony fire was arson ordered by MQM to teach factory owners a lesson for not coughing up all the extortion money demanded.Īlso read: Rangers’ report blames MQM for Baldia factory fire
Zarb-i-Azb was necessary because functional states retain monopoly over violence and don’t share sovereignty, we are told. To end violence we need to carve in stone the principle, that ‘your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins’.
Was it for religion, sect, ethnicity, power, honour or national security, we ask. Only the interests and biases it facilitates or hampers is what our state and society fuss over.
We will continue to suffer APS Peshawar, Shikarpur, Peshawar Imamia Masjid and Baldia colony like tragedies, for insidiousness, capable of justifying violence, has seeped deep into our body politic.
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