Former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif can be held under house arrest if the law and order situation worsens, Punjab Home Secretary Rao Iftikhar Ahmed said on Wednesday. Oh, house arrest, is it? With a telephone to keep in touch and a teevee to see how things are going and herds of lackeys to wait upon him hand and foot and to carry messages to the old myrmidons. That's sure to work well. Have they thought about just having him disappear? That'd work better, and result in fewer casualties in the long run. But we're discussing Pakistain, where life is cheap.
Where some lives are cheaper than others ...
Addressing a press conference at the Punjab Civil Secretariat, he said security of the people was the government's responsibility, adding that no one would be allowed to take law in their hands. He said no parliamentarian had been arrested in any part of the province. However, the government had arrested around 300 political workers who could disrupt law and order, Iftikhar said. He said the army had not been deployed in any part of the province, adding that rangers were on standby. Additional Chief Secretary Taimoor Azmat Usman was also present on the occasion.