Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad on Saturday warned the government to immediately arrest the killers of a 13-year-old boy from Mandi Bahawaldin, âor we will not only strip the SSP (senior superintendent of police) of his uniform, but the dictator as wellâ. Mr Ahmad was addressing protestors in Mandi Bahauddin who accuse the local administration and the areaâs MPAs and MNAs of protecting the murderers. They allege that the killers have links with the district nazim and that is why they are not being arrested. Sajjad Ahmed was raped and killed around two weeks ago. His mother wrote to various political leaders to help. Mr Ahmed has responded by asking the youth wing of the Jamaat, the Shabab-e-Milli, to pursue the case and donating Rs 10,000 to Sajjadâs mother from his own pocket. âThe poor have no voice in this country. All the doors of justice are closed to them. The police, administration, feudal lords and thieves are all one. But we will fight for their right,â Mr Ahmed said. âTill the poor and deprived class do not stand up for themselves against brutality, no general, judge, feudal or policeman will give them justice. The rulers have become great supporters of brutalism. If they do not stop this, we will strip them of their uniforms.â JI Punjab Ameer Liaqat Baloch and Shabab-e-Milli leaders Sahid Pervez, Irfan Safi and Ejaz Hussain Kiyal also addressed the protest.
| Assuming the facts as stated are correct, I agree with Qazi that those who should be investigating and arresting the killers should be tarred and feathered. But rather than push to actually have it done, he's demagoguing it — which causes me to doubt he gives a rat's patou about the dead kid, but lots about weakening his opposition. |
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