A Nightmare

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, after the floods and the target killings, two teenage boys are flogged to death in Sialkot. The boys were tortured by the public for two hours which caused their brutal deaths. The reason that triggered such crime has not yet been ascertained. Whatever the reason might be, it in no way legitimizes the inhumanity. If the flogging weren’t enough, the dead bodies of the brothers were hung upside down on a tank.
If anyone has seen the censored images on TV, they would see how onlookers encircled the crime scene like a bullring, like it was an animal being slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha, witnessing the injustice before their eyes like it was some kind of entertainment. I use the word ‘entertainment’ because if it wasn’t entertainment for them, then why stand there and do nothing at all? Why didn’t they stop the people who were mercilessly beating the hell out of those boys? Not a single attempt to save the boys screaming for dear life.
In a situation described above, one would question, “Where was the police?” Oh yes, the patriotic police of the nation was there at the scene but were as good as being absent as all they did was help those butchers exhibit their butchery and keep people at a distance from there. Why did the police even present themselves at the scene when all they did was stop people from disrupting the butchery?
I suggest that all the police officials present at the scene snatch the badges on their chests and throw their uniforms in the bin. They’re not worthy of it.
Every month for Pakistan has a nightmare in store for us. But this is certainly something I had not expected in the holy month of Ramadan! I don’t get why the locals are protesting now. The justice was in their hands. I don’t get what justice they await now. They gave their verdict when they refused to help the boys who were screaming in pain when being subjected to such brutality.
I can’t even imagine what must have gone through the mother’s head when she saw her teenage sons butchered to death? On the father who had to collect bodies of his two sons severely mutilated? Why does the public feel that they can take the justice in their own hands? Why has this become a norm here? WHY DOES THE MEDIA GLORIFY THIS NORM? WHY DO WE SEE NEWS CHANNELS GLORIFYING ‘PUBLIC BEATING UP A THIEF’? It saddens me; it pains me to see what’s going on in our country.
And when it is said to them: "Make not mischief on the earth," they say: "We are only peacemakers." Verily! They are the ones who make mischief, but they realize it not. [Al-Baqarah, 11-12]
If this is who we are as a nation, then tell me why the water, the air, the earth of this country would not be angry with us?