Balochistan’s
law, order situation and LEAs
Abdul Zahoor Khan Marwat
The Balochistan issue is in the limelight once again. While the
esteemed judiciary strongly criticises the law-enforcement agencies for
disappearances in the province, the terrorist incidents which have recently hit
the province seem to have overtaken other important developments. Only
recently, the police found the bodies of six miners and one doctor from the
outskirts of Quetta.
They were kidnapped on July 7, 2012, from Dagar and Marwar areas near
the provincial capital. These people, who were working for a private coalmine
company, the United Mineral Company, belonged to Swat
Soon after the event, the terrorists, Balochistan Liberation Front
claimed responsibility for the sad incident.Earlier, 16 Punjabi job seekers who
were going abroad were brazenly lined up and shot dead by a terrorist outfit in
Turbat.
Terrorism occurring in Quetta has become a norm with terrorists
targeting Hazaras, Pakhtuns, Punjabis, Urdu speaking settlers, Sindhis and the
Baloch who have openly shown their loyalty to the country.
What was extremely despicable about the Swati miners case was the fact
that they were killed at a time when the Supreme Court was hearing the missing
persons’ case, with the chief justice, who was present in the provincial
capital, himself taking keen interest in the issue.
The terrorists who have foreign support chose the particular moment to
drive the point home that they did not give a damn about the state or the
judicial system in the country.There are no two opinions about the fact that
controlling the law and order situation is the main responsibility and domain
of the provincial government, which unfortunately has totally failed to take
charge of the situation.
The questions here arise: where is the provincial government and its
semblance of legitimacy as ugly bloodletting is on the rise? While the FC
supports the provincial government to control the law and order situation in
the province, can the FC be blamed for all the ills? What steps has the
provincial government taken to control the law and order situation in the last
four years? How many plans and strategies, including political, has it put forward
to deal with the situation? How seriously has the provincial government taken
incidents of terrorism while many of its decision makers were mostly found
staying outside of the province? Why is there political and bureaucratic
obfuscation on the issue? If not the FC, who will deal with the foreign funded
terrorists on rampage in the province? How many personnel has the FC sacrificed
in dealing with terrorists? Has the provincial government done something about
their families? Has the common man heard about the sacrifices the FC has made?
As the highly complex phenomenon of missing persons in the province is
being looked into, one should not put the overall blame on the shoulders of
law-enforcement agencies as it is the provincial government that runs the show
in the province. But one may ask: where is the provincial government?
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