By: Asem Mustafa Awan
It happened on October 12 when a cop in uniform riding a motorcycle presumably the official one got a minor inadvertent jerk by the following biker at Pak Pattan Chowk, Sahiwal in Southern Punjab. The Punjab police cop is clearly seen losing his temper and thrashing the citizen.
Armed with a lethal weapon and while crossing over as in ‘right of way’ he abused the unarmed commuter who dared to reply back and lost his life with four bullets in his chest.
The unimaginable callousness on part of the policeman is witnessed as after shooting down the unarmed man he went on his way as if nothing happened.
So many murders in the ‘land of the pure’ where innocent are shot down, run over, tortured subjected to custodial deaths. The missing and unaccounted for are not included and the list goes on and on.
The video tells it all as how the repressive force namely police abuse its power on an unarmed commoner who dared to resist the abuse and is now no more.
The man is dead and the killer went about his business believing in a system that in the end, he will use the system in his favor.
Sudden rage is one plea while the second is passing the buck from top to bottom besides pressurizing the family members of the dead for a patch-up.
The family members of many are on record as they refused to pursue the case citing the system and ‘state’ in particular is criminal friendly.
Model Town Lahore, Sahiwal Murder Case, Raymond Davis Case Lahore, Shah Rukh Jatoi Case Karachi, Majeed Achkazai Case Quetta are just to name a few. The ‘low-life commoners’ in Pakistan are faced with this dilemma each day and the day they survive is another day added in their long list of unending miseries.
The killer policeman Bilal Bali is arrested and the deceased Muhammad Akhter was a salesman in food market. The killer in report is a drug addict and it is believed the system in one way or the other will mould and the killer will go scot free as like the many other murderers in the land of the pure.
The writer is a Special Correspondent at The Dayspring