This is in reference to the letter “Quetta carnage” by Khawaja Umer Farooq. I completely share Farooq’s concern over recent sectarian killings in Quetta.
I believe time has come to nail the culprits. It’s not only the terrorists who are killing innocent people in the name of religion and sect, but in my opinion, the real culprits are our ruling elites whose actions and inactions are resulting in this mayhem.
It’s intelligence and law-enforcing agencies role to locate and dismantle terrorists’ network. But these elite forces are either clueless or scared to go after the terrorists. It’s an open secret that in the past several sectarian outfits had been enjoying close links with agencies for a broader role, therefore, they are now out of anybody’s control.
Several provincial governments have been reluctant to take action against sectarian outfits to keep the vote bank intact. Parliament and central government have miserably failed to enact new laws to deal with ever-growing terrorism. They are aware that judiciary has been using the obsolete evidence laws based on eyewitnesses to release the terrorists. But the Parliament has not been able to amend the evidence laws from the British colonial period. Judiciary role is also not very promising.
In short, it’s a failure of all the organs of state — government, parliament and judiciary and security forces. All the state organs lack seriousness and sincerity to rid the country of terrorism. — Masood Khan, Jubail
Sectarian killings
