One doesn’t have to subscribe to Dr Tahirul Qadri’s questionable brand of politics to argue that the 14 people killed in the Model Town incident in June 2014 were murdered in cold blood by the Punjab Police
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By Talat Farooq | January 12, 2018
Eight-year-old Zainab’s rape and murder has drawn intense outrage on the streets of Kasur and on social media this week. It is the twelfth case of this nature to surface within a two-kilometre radius in Bulleh Shah’s Kasur in a year. The case has emerged from a city where a gang of paedophiles – which involved members of an influential family – was busted in 2015.
The 2012 brutal killing of Shahzeb Khan also spawned public outrage and the killers were awarded a death sentence in 2013. But since then, the influential murderers have been manipulating the judicial system to get off the hook. Shahzeb’s case shows how those with strong political connections tend to abuse power to try literally get away with murder. However, Zainab’s case demonstrates that it is only when the power of the people manifests itself on the streets that can you get the political elite to listen.
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