Fanatics on
the Loose
By Col. Riaz Jafri
(Retd)
Rawalpindi
One Maulvi Sarwar
committed the murder of Zille Huma Usman –
a minister of the Punjab government in broad daylight
in Gujranwala city on Tuesday the 20th February.
Not too surprisingly, not a word of condemnation
has been uttered by any religio-political party
against the heinous crime or its perpetrator.
What one gathers from the newspaper reports the
said Maulvi Sarwar is a known serial killer of
women and had murdered 6 or 7 women earlier but
always managed to escape the punishment for lack
of evidence as the witnesses who had earlier deposed
against him soon recanted, whether under threat
or inducement is not known. Powerful religious
patrons not only seemed to protect him but also
approved of his such cleansing murders of the
‘sinners’. Had the Gujranwala police
kept an eye on the history sheeter most probably
Zille Huma would have been alive today.
Let Huma’s tragic death not go in vain.
It is high time that the fanatics on the loose
and their patrons with their own brands of Islam
were bridled well and proper to put to an end
to such murders and other highhandedness being
committed by them in the name of Islam.
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