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Subject: RIP Shahzeb Khan
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iceylips 30.12.12 - 12:44am
The cold-blooded murder of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan in Karachi, at the hands of two young feudal despots Nawab Siraj Talpur and Shahrukh Jatoi is just another example of our collective failure in this regard. Facts first: Shahzeb Khan,the only son of his parents, had just returned home from his sisters Valima when, outside his home in the Country Club Apartments of Karachi, he got into averbal argument with a man who wasteasing Shahzebs sister. This minor quarrel was soon diffused by * +

iceylips 30.12.12 - 12:45am
Shahzeb's father, Aurangzeb, who is DSP of the local area. While that would have been the end of the episode in any other place,but in a city that is the fiefdom of a handful of waderas, this was only the beginning. As it turned out, the man teasing Shahzebs sister worked for an influential feudal bully Siraj Talpur, who could not stomach his servant being stopped from cat-calling a young girl. * +

iceylips 30.12.12 - 12:45am
Asa result, soon thereafter, in a granddemonstration of machoism, Talpur,along with his other feudal friendShahrukh Jatoi and their guards,ambushed Shahzebs car as it left hishouse, and shot four bullets into theyoung mans body that took his life. Andif you are wondering how the Jatoi andTalpur heirs thought they could get awaywith this, you clearly do not understandthe power of hereditary entitlement inPakistan. * +

iceylips 30.12.12 - 12:46am
The murderers committed thiscrime in the knowledge and confidencethat nothing substantial will come out ofit. They knew that, in a society wheredozens die each day in sectarian violenceor suicide bombs or drone attacks, no onewill care about the death of one teenageboy. And even if someone does, no onewill dare to point a finger at the mightyTalpurs or Jatois. And even, in theimprobable event that someone mustersthe courage to do so, the police willnever register a case against them. * +

iceylips 30.12.12 - 12:46am
Andin the unlikely possibility that the policeperforms its job, there will be some wayto avoid arrest, influence theinvestigation, and eventually reach somesettlement that lets them off the hook.And sadly, in all these assumptions, themurderers were right. For even though acase has been (after much social andmedia outcry) registered, the culpritshave not been found from interiorSindh, and no meaningful arrests havebeen made. How could this be? * +

iceylips 30.12.12 - 12:47am
Who is toblame for this injustice? Have we reallybecome a society where the cost ofarguing with some waderas servant isdeath? Is the police nothing more thanan extension of the feudals privateguards? Are the officials within our lawenforcement agencies really so helpless,in the face of political elite, that theycannot track down and arrest two knownmurderers from interior Sindh? What isthe most that can happen if theadministration was to dispassionatelypursue the ends of justice transfer ofthe * +

iceylips 30.12.12 - 12:48am
ends of justice transfer ofthe IG Police or Chief Secretary? Does theIG Police hold an extra six months of histenure to be more sacred than the life ofan innocent civilian, or the wailings of acrying mother? * +

ummati 30.12.12 - 12:56am
this is indeed sad, i read it up n he was killed for defending his sister, another senseless killing * +

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