It was January 2019 when a family was gunned down by CTD. Two men, a woman and a 13-year-old were killed. An entire family with two young girls unharmed to mourn for the rest of their lives.
Such tragedies define a state. And ours is crueler than most; it loves to define itself over and over again. Dead bodies don’t hurt its conscience. Only dissent does.
Now we have CCD.
It has recently killed a 9-year-old girl. A different organization. From different political parties. But the same ruthless state. Why? Because it’s the power behind the curtains of civil and un-civil establishments that run the usual and unusual affairs.
After all, it’s a security state. That runs on gunpowder. A state whose violent tentacles are spread all around. A militarized fort with a wall of skulls around it.
A country is for people. People are not for country. This upside-down narrative flourished by nationalism is the foundation of the massive graveyards around the country. As Iqbal said,
ان تازہ خداؤں ميں بڑا سب سے وطن ہے
جو پيرہن اس کا ہے ، وہ مذہب کا کفن ہے
May a country burn to ashes, may it not survive, if its thirst for the blood of its own people never subsides.
CCD has killed and thrashed a lot of innocent people over time. We are reading. Every now and then, an innocent person is gunned down. Because there is no law and order to follow them or to be followed by them.
You cannot bypass the law. Because if you do – even with the right intentions – it will lead to chaos. This land is already a jungle, and wolves are ruling it with wolfish instincts.
We have seen the bloodshed of Rao Anwar. We remember his 444 extrajudicial murders.
No wonder they fight over toilets. Such trash and poop they are. This actually happened. A CSP had a tussle with an MPA’s son over the use of toilet. Initially, MPA tried to cool down the matter. Then he didn’t. in the end, MPA’s poop won over the CSP’s trash. A very competitive match though.
Any organization, action, or team that passes the laws and regulations, is not a relief. It will lead to chaos. If CCD helps tackle crime by bypassing laws and courts, it will haunt us in the end.
As Sir Thomas More said that if you cut down every law to hunt your enemies, what will protect you when power turns and comes for you? Here’s the exact dialogue from the movie “A Man of All Seasons”:
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!
Laws have loopholes. Courts fail too. But that doesn’t mean you make them null and void. You build them. You improve them over time. Gradually. The ways we have adopted are the ways of a jungle. Or perhaps, even jungles have better law and order.
The law is not an obstacle to justice; it is the only thing that makes justice possible.
The moment a state allows its agents to become judge, jury, and executioner, every citizen becomes a potential victim. Today it is a suspected criminal. Tomorrow it is a dissident. The day after, it is an innocent child caught in the crossfire.
No nation can build peace upon fear, nor order upon impunity. If those entrusted to uphold the law are permitted to stand above it, then the greatest threat to society is no longer crime; it is the state itself.
