Punjab chief minister Maryam Nawaz has taken notice of the heinous crime in Muzaffargarh where a man hammered his wife and seven children to death over a domestic dispute.
The culprit has already confessed to crime stating that he was upset over domestic issues concerning poverty that have triggered him to kill his family. The incident occurred on the day of Eid ul Fitr.
Longing for a day without crime in Pakistan just seems like a wish without fulfilment; as there is no such day around the year that, doesn’t mark such an incident which is of its kind about its severity, a local commented when talking to The Opinion on phone.
Initial investigation has revealed that an outlaw named Sajjad under arrest has informed the police there have been some series resulting from domestic issues with his wife over poverty. In a fit of disappointment, he killed his seven children aged six months to eight years, and his wife with a sharp-edged weapon. The police have registered a case in this regard and are also continuing further investigation.
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz taking notice of this incident has sought a report from the Inspector General of Punjab Police (IGP). In the meanwhile, District Police Officer (DPO) Muzaffargarh Syed Husnain Haider has been reported to say that though the criminal is handicapped, yet is mentally fit and stable.
Importantly, here in Punjab a few days back another man confessed his crime of poisoning his wife and four children. In this incident, too four children were pushed to death including one 16 years old girl. Here in this case, too domestic brawls were frequent over poverty which is common in both the said cases. In this case, too the Punjab Chief Minister took notice and directed the police to investigate and report.
Unfortunately, when almost the entire nation was busy celebrating Eid, a girl was killed over rejecting a marriage proposal. This kind of serious crime against women is almost the third one that has been reported just in five days when two other women were killed in the Gujranwala district over the same issue.
Karachi on Eid day too was not left behind when dacoits killed two innocent people including the father of four kids. Here in this city from the beginning of Ramadan till Eid, 19 people have lost their lives resulting from resistance to robberies. However, what has been said above and in Karachi is something that has been continuing almost in the whole of Pakistan every day for years but could never be controlled.
Neither the notices of high authorities nor the police could ever control it even for a single day, as all this is going on at its speed. Crime is committed at a greater level in major cities such as Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Peshawar, Multan, Hyderabad, Islamabad and Quetta. We see almost every form of crime committed here such as murder, rape, gang rape, sexual abuse of a minor, kidnapping, armed robbery, burglary and carjacking, theft, drug selling, and so on. Isn’t it irritating for the people that prompt notice by the high-ups and police being busy arresting criminals could never stop crime?
We have been witnessing crime for years and years but to what level we are educating our children in schools on the sensitivity of crime? What we have incorporated regarding crime and its impact on society in textbooks being taught at schools should also be an important matter to deliberate on. Equally important is to realize that arresting the criminals and their booking under the law could never bring lost lives back.
What is being so far is important in its place but this was not the all. Taking notice of the incident is very good and highlights how important the matter is to the notice-taking authority, yet it cannot help cure the actual disease. Public education from school to the adult level and the economic development of those below the poverty line are two of the most important factors that can bring Pakistan out of the bottom. It can prove to be a milestone toward a more civilized society in Pakistan. implementation of law and letting the responsible meet justice is just one step, but needs to be coupled with something more.
About what is happening in Karachi, hopefully, history will not be repeated when a few years back in the Ghotki district dozens of armed dacoits came out in protest complaining that the local police were extorting money from them. Though the police had termed the protest as the result of its hard work and have denied any grafting from protesters, the reality is that such an incident has happened in Pakistan and in a province where nowadays killing a man is not a big deal as every day there is brutally taking a new life.
