Re: Post-election hangover?
I’m sure there is but nowhere near as widespread as it is in the developing countries.
This is all greek to me. ![]()
Whether or not I believe in the Quran has nothing to do with my opinion that shariah law was most suited in the olden days, not any more. We don’t need eye witnesses to convict rapists these days when we have DNA technology and hundreds of other scientific tools at our disposal.
So coming back to the topic of elections, although I wouldn’t have voted for PMLN, I do applaud Shahbaz Sharif for creating the Punjab forensic Science Agency. There’s no mention of forensic science in the Quran but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t the best tool today to increase the conviction rates. And that’s really what you want - to increase conviction rates, to make criminals pay, to deter the public from crime/corruption/bribery etc and you can certainly do that through strict law enforcement. I remember in 2011 they introduced tougher sentences (min 14 years jail + Rs 1 million fine) in Pakistan for those found guilty of acid attacks and apparently the conviction rate has tripled since the amendment. So if only our “pulas” got their act together, things would be so much better. If the police are corrupt, the government is incompetent and perhaps the public is to blame too for not doing anything about it.