How Savagery has become a Common Behavior?

When it happens like what the world saw in the footages shown on almost all the TV channels, befalling two brothers, both the teenager students, in Sialkot? When mobs go rapacious to such an extent carrying on the crime of ferociously crushing the bodies of the boys with heavy bricks, sticks and other blunt weapons for almost two hours. Their half-dead bodies were kept hung and dragged on the rough ground which even wolves do not gnaw on their prey for such a long time? This terrible happening took place while not only dozens of the people were callously witnessing the brutality standing around them, but the police were also there on the spot?

It happens only in worse law and order situation when remissness of the authorities responsible for law enforcing is manifest, entire society is either greatly scared or outraged and in a state of psychological disorder they resort to violence and lawbreaking. When the justice is shackled or palsied and miscreants start holding the ‘public courts’ on the roads and streets to settle their disputes mischievously creating chaotic situation in the society. It happens when law of the state becomes either blind or biased, differently dealing with the higher class of the society and the common people. Our Holy Prophet SAW is reported to have said in a case of theft by a women belonging to an esteemed tribe: “ The communities before you were destroyed because when someone from their higher class committed a crime they let him go but when the perpetrator of the same crime was from among the poor punishment of Hadd used to be established…”(Muslim)

Perhaps we are approaching to the same end of getting collectively perished granting the powerful people of the society the right to do whatever they want to do. Discrimination is in practice with a vogue concept that some people are special and some others are unimportant. The same is repeated here now with us with immunity rights of the head of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Enjoying this type of unjust rights he makes entire system tainted with his corruption but defiantly blocks the course of justice by not letting the law come in force against him. Entire administrative machinery works to thwart the courts doing justice. The federal law minister, protecting his boss, impedes opening the corruption cases against the man who has earned notoriety of having huge of money in foreign banks and a lot of property in New York, London, Paris and Dubai. It happens when interior minister of one of the provinces of the state shamelessly declares himself to be ‘badmaash’ (rogue). It also happens when some of the federal ministers prove to be so selfish and cruel that they manage to break the dykes to change the course of the floodwater towards poor localities just to save their own lands causing ruin to the thousands of the people in flood disaster. Such sad incidents are more likely to happen when a provincial minister in Sindh gets two trucks of the relief goods going for the flood hit needy people unloaded at her residence. Lawlessness of this kind is destined when in the daylight the dacoits under the nose of the police without any check freely loot those who are already under catastrophic troubles. We have to go through such a horrible situation when ‘Jagirdars,’ ‘waderas’ and ‘sardaars’ in all the four provinces including the ministers, MNAs, MPAs and senior ruling party members are patrons of the gangs of the looters and abductors.

It can most probably take place when human life is so cheep that almost half a dozen tragedies of target killings in Karachi, the biggest city of the country, is a normal and routine thing of every day and three allies in the government blame each other of carrying out such savagery. It happens when innocent people become targets of every day drone attacks by the Americans with collaboration and consent of our own civil and military authorities, when terrorists hit the civilians and the military personals and many of the tribal people become subject to large retaliatory air and land attacks by our own army, when a great number of the settlers from the Punjab is ruthlessly becoming the victim of the insurgents and mutineers in Balochistan.

All such successive tragic happenings indicate that human life having reverence and sanctity even more than Ka’bah, is going rapidly lost. After painful massacre of the innocent teenager girl students of Jamea Hafsah in Islamabad with vicious command of military dictator ruling then and burning their bodies with the use of phosphorus, now what happened in Sialkot with two brothers is the most woeful and heartbreaking incident.