Model Town tragedy highlightedIt is a classic instance of an orchestrated cover-up, of protecting the powerful against the weak, of justice not only inordinately delayed but denied. Shocking scenes were witnessed on television of police personnel firing straight at stone-hurling PAT workers, men, women and children, with a sadistic cold-bloodedness. A one-man Judicial Commission investigated the barbaric massacre, an anti-terrorist court also heard the case, and sundry petitions were filed in Lahore High Court by the grieved families, but no exemplary punishments were meted out which might have assuaged somewhat their unendurable grief. In fact, one directly involved official was conveniently (guiltily?) Progress in prosecuting the case was not helped by the PAT chief’s seemingly halfhearted approach, breathing fire one moment and winging off to foreign climes on holy duties the next.

Source: Pakistan Today September 28, 2018 15:22 UTC