I am running a shop on GT Road, Daroghewal, Lahore. Today, some policemen arrived and ordered me to cover my shop with an iron grill and asked me to hire a guard for protection from dacoits. I have a few questions for my (so-called) rulers-cum-protectors: why should I hire a guard to protect myself and what is the purpose of police department if I have to do so? Why is our government spending huge amounts of money on the police? Only to protect VIPs? Because those are the only people privy to the services of the police.
People of Pakistan are now treated like animals as animals have no right to get the facility of government’s shelter and protection.
If the police department is taken care of, most of the street crime will reduce automatically. This is because most of outlaws are protected by our police officials and our government has no scrutiny-system to get rid of these black sheep in the police ranks. If our government is sincere about coping with small outlaws, it should issue permits for small arms to the people as then they will have means to protect themselves. After all if the police is not doing its job, the people have to look out for themselves.
KAMIL
Lahore