Re: Enough is enough: The excesses of Baloch nationalists
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The Gang Rapists in Uniform
The barbaric gang rape incident of a lady doctor in Sui by men in uniform and the efforts to cover the crime by the higher military authorities caused a serious reaction in Balochistan. Nationalist Baluchistan Army fired rockets on government installations to force the authorities to register charges against the culprits.
General Musharraf hypocritically warned the BNA but remained silent about the barbaric crime committed by the young captain and his subordinates. This incidence, on one side tells how men in khaki are above the law and on the other it shows the helplessness of civil society in Pakistan.
The incident at Sui is not the first one in which criminal in khaki are involved their such stories circulate town to town in Pakistan. According to Hamoodur Rehman report the people of rank of general run brothel houses in various cities of Pakistan.
The other day, ARY Dr. Shahid Masood arranged a dialogue between former ISI Chief General Hamid Gull and Chief of Indian Defence Journal Mr. Bharat Sharma. Mr. Sharma blatantly told general Hamid Gull that Pakistan army raped 90 thousand women in East Pakistan. Instead of refuting the charges, General Hamid Gull told Mr. Bharat Sharma that Indian forces were also raping women in Kashmir.
It sounded that the general did not care about what his comrades did in East Pakistan he simply wanted to score points against his counterpart.
In another press conference a reporter asked general Musharraf about the behavior of another general whose men picked up a hawaldar from a police station in Lahore and had beaten him for asking the general’s driver to remove taint from his car windows.
General Musharraf told the reporter that he would not have acted any way different than the other general.
This is the mindset Pakistani generals have. That is why they fearlessly break any law and get away with it. They violate the constitution, overthrow governments, destroy civilian institutions, make money through real estate by using soft regulations, commit gang rapes, and no one gives a damn about it.
The captain who gang raped the lady doctor may have considered Sui as Lahore and Baluchistan as Punjab. The captain and his accomplices did not understand the difference between Baluchistan and Punjab. What BNA did was the natural reaction against the barbaric gang rape committed by the captain and his subordinates.
Before threatening BNA and Nationalist Balochis, the general should establish the writ of state on men in khaki uniform. Once, the men in uniform learn to respect constitution, rule of law, the civil society will automatically start observing the limitations imposed by law.