[DAWN] You can tell you live in a dysfunctional society when you see the guardians of the lives and property of people brazenly shooting them dead, and the guardians of the law unabashedly breaking the law.An Urdu proverb goes, 'Do bartan sath rakh do tau woh bhe kharak jatay hain'. (Put two pots together and they're bound to bang). Provided the continual daily interaction between the lawyers and the police, Daska was bound to happen someday.
But what transpired at Daska, and what has transpired ever since, represents all that is wrong with the police, and all that is wrong within the lawyer community.
Multiple stories have emanated, presenting variant causes behind Shahzad Warraich's cowardly act, but they all draw a consensus upon general details.
An outstanding conflict existed between the Tehsil Municipal Authority (TMA) and Daska bar council. Despite this matter being sub judice, the municipal authority tried to raze the building; and on resistance from the bar council, summoned the police. The concerned SHO, thereafter, confronted the lawyers, took to gun sex; and on still failing to intimidate, resorted to direct firing at close range, killing two lawyers and a passerby.
What has followed since then includes the burning of the house and office of an Assistant Commissioner, the burning of the security office of the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Assembly, and sporadic attacks at police mobiles or units in the breadth of the country.