Guest blog by temporal who blogs at Baithak Blog
Earlier I had posted Who killed the Baloch leaders? by Qurat ul ain Siddiqui. More on this saga here.
This should raise alarms. Will it? This is extra-judicial killings – by state organs. The last time it happened under Benazir and Sharif Governments, the agencies got emboldened and thousands of Baluchis and Muhajirs died.
Earlier in the 70s, the same agencies were involved in what was then East Pakistan.
A fool learns from his mistakes. An idiot does not.
We seem to be bent upon endlessly repeating mistakes. Either that, or the agencies are a power unto themselves and are a state within state and cannot be controlled.
The key question to ask is – ‘who exercises control over these agencies and how effective is their control?’
The concern of our MaiBaap is not displaced. They urge effective control over this behemoth (the Agencies) as much for their benefit as for ours.
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