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What is there to say about the tragedy of APS?
Unfulfilled promises of legal reform, accountability, and a changed police system. The state claims to 'never forget' but allows the man who planned it to scurry away. All it became was an excuse to empower the security state.
Unfulfilled promises of legal reform, accountability, and a changed police system. The state claims to 'never forget' but allows the man who planned it to scurry away. All it became was an excuse to empower the security state.
We authorized trial by military courts - promising to fix the regular courts in the interim. That never happened.
Military courts operated under laws that allowed them to disregard any semblance of due process during trials. Even grounds of appeal to the SC were limited.
Military courts operated under laws that allowed them to disregard any semblance of due process during trials. Even grounds of appeal to the SC were limited.
One of the most draconian laws was the Protection of Pakistan Act. The law reversed the burden of proof I.e. people had to prove they were innocent; they were assumed guilty.
POPA also allowed preventive detention and secret trials.
POPA also allowed preventive detention and secret trials.
The state also abdicated responsibility towards the parents of the children who were martyred. An attack that happened in 2014 resulted in a report by the government in 2020. 6 years of tormented waiting.
Compare this with New Zealand which published a report on Christchurch within one 1 year.
The APS report appears to answer some questions but doesn't seem to address the tougher issues: who will be held accountable for this terrible lapse of security?
The APS report appears to answer some questions but doesn't seem to address the tougher issues: who will be held accountable for this terrible lapse of security?
The report indicates that locals gave shelter to some of the terrorist. It says that when "infidels are within the inside," no agency can effortlessly counter an attack.
Where is the solution to this problem? What led to people doing this? We don't know.
Where is the solution to this problem? What led to people doing this? We don't know.
One parent who lost their child in the attack is a member of the PTM-he has had multiple FIRs filed against him because of this.
The response to this attack should have been a better police, better courts, and more accountability. Instead we are at the same place we were in 2014.
The attack happened in Peshawar because it could happen there. It is part of a province that has not gotten the attention and importance from the state that a province like Punjab has. Yet we continue to marginalize large portions of the country.
