The law and order situation arises when there is insecurity, threat of violence or violence arising due to a host of factors disturbing the ordinary conduct of life and businesses in a society.
The law and order situation in Pakistan has nose-dived during the last ten years. The country has been in the grip of a crime wave for over a decade now. We have become the most criminalized country after Russia. Dacoities, burglaries, thefts, car and motor cycle snatching, sectarian and ethnic massacres, bomb blasts, slaughters of worshippers inside places of worship i.ee mosques, Imam Barghas and grave yards are evidence of total breakdown of administrative and law and order machinery.
On Eid day the entire police force and half of the Army had to be deployed to protect the worshippers, who even then were in fear of their lives. If the armed forces have to protect the Masajid then who will defend Pakistan’s borders? One had to hear swipes that Muslims are more safe in India than here! This rot has occurred because professionalism and discipline had disappeared from the administration. The system of governance will have to reviewed and renewed. The present centralized system has failed to deliver.
While there are no divisions among the people, who desire that they be allowed to live in peace and safety, hired killers and murderers are on the rampage. Sectarianism and crime is unabated because the judicial system delays and denies justice, and the criminals are not punished. Enemy intelligence are perpetrating large scale sabotage and subversion. They have a hand in the daily bomb blasts and sectarian slaughters.
Law and order agencies i.e. the police is insufficient, and neither trained nor equipped to handle terrorist attacks, or apprehend terrorists after the event. The people are living in fear. And as and when a criminal is apprehended, he is not punished. Hundreds of terrorists and murderers who were given death sentences, and whose appeals have been rejected by the High Courts have not been hanged.
A government which is unable to punish criminals in fact stokes criminality. The domestic environment is becoming dangerously corrosive and is becoming a threat to national security. National security demands good administration and law and order capability which can contain the existing disorder and criminality. That the armed forces have to protect Namazis and conduct census is a clear proof of the total breakdown of civil administration. The elected government with its massive mandate must be helped to put things back on track. But the rulers will have to wake up before it is too late. The Pakistani nation can rise to great heights of achievement under honest and dedicated leadership.