Two crimes
THE senseless killing of a teenager by his employers in Multan is a crime that deserves unqualified condemnation. It suggests that the powerful in this country still believe they can get away with any criminal act, however heinous. It is also a damning indictment of a state that repeatedly fails to protect its most vulnerable citizens — women and children. But the death of one of the two suspects in this case in an alleged ‘police encounter’ cannot be defended either. The police apparently had a strong........
