The term terrorist means a person who causes fear or terror in the minds of people and there is some sense of insecurity in the public.
There was a time when a large number of policemen seen in an area created fear or terror in the minds of public. Now when a VVIP has to pass through an area, one finds policemen and traffic wardens deployed every 50 yards of the road and all the traffic is either diverted or stopped on the road by a traffic sergeant who is literally shouting and abusing road commuters to clear the road. This traffic sergeant is always in a great hurry and does not accept any delay by the commuters of the road.
The police on the road erect barriers on the side roads and block their entry to the main road on which the VVIP has to pass. So this VVIP really instils terror in the minds of the commuters of the road, some of them are taking patients to hospitals or attend some important meeting or students to attend classes.
But the ever vigilant sleuths (only for this VVIP) does not allow anybody to move even an inch before a cavalcade of over 40 vehicles passes through. No emergency request of any commuter is listened to by the job conscious government sleuths though some patients have died during such traffic hold-ups.
So I rate these VVIPs who have no regard for the inconvenience of the general public as bigger terrorists than those who come down from Waziristan. Both create terror and fear in the minds of public. They may have normal protocol and guard while moving from point A to point B without putting general public to inconvenience.
MUHAMMAD AZHAR KHWAJA
Lahore
