Afghan driver shot dead by Pakistani police

[emkhan]

The police, FC and army is a group of monsters in Pakistan. They do whatever they like. Thats why some of them were beheaded with anger and revenge.
But there are many secularists who support these thugs. They better ask that guy's family.

[IamDZJ]

martyr my foot. dogs die with alot more dignity. don't you dare glorify this.

[Amir al Ghaznavi]

The police, FC and army is a group of monsters in Pakistan. They do whatever they like. Thats why some of them were beheaded with anger and revenge.
But there are many secularists who support these thugs. They better ask that guy's family.

In the last 5 minutes ive read threads on an afghan honour killing in canada and the killing of an afghan refugee in pakistan, and in both you somehow brought up secularists

And this from a guy studying in a secularist country which aint cheap. Unless your father is a part of the 1% in pakistan that earned such wealth in a halal manner...

You are honestly the most two faced munafiq useless poster here. Easily

[faye]

The police, FC and army is a group of monsters in Pakistan. They do whatever they like. Thats why some of them were beheaded with anger and revenge.
But there are many secularists who support these thugs. They better ask that guy's family.

i knew it. the damned secularists are behind it all. no muslim would do such a thing.

[az4er]

Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaihi Raji'un

It’s sad, but this isn't anything new; it could have happened to anyone, not just Afghan refugees.

A few transport businesses operating through Pishtakhara are illegal i.e. unregistered. The routes run via the Peshawar-FATA link and onto the Ring Road. The police can't stop them because the people running these businesses are usually in bed with politicians and the military.

So, in addition to making a little extra money, low-wage earning police officials opt to take bribes in order to establish authority, regardless of how insignificant it may be.

Transactions normally take place without much of a fuss and the bribe becomes a standard on the check-posts they operate from; kind-of-like an unsanctioned tax, except it’s pocketed by the policeman/men.

The police operating on the posts are indifferent towards truckers because a lot of the cargo that some trucks carry is illegal; and some truckers happen to be criminals (if not registered; then in the conventional sense). Plus, they work for less than minimum-wage, in an extremely dangerous locality.

Note that Pishthakhara and Nothia, in recent years, have been hot spots for smuggling and suicide bombings.

In this case, when the driver refused to pay more, he may have been undermining whatever minimal authority the police have-which in virtually semi-autonomous localities run by drug lords and criminals, can make all the difference between life and death.

I wouldn't be surprised if the constable felt threatened during/after the exchange because many union truckers operating within KPK and FATA exude a mob mentality. They keep tabs on individuals who may be of "interest" to them (which includes the police), which may have been the reason why the policeman reacted the way he did. All in all I think it'll be hard to tell what exactly was going through his head. If I had to guess I'd say it was blind rage.

My view is that it’s because of the infernal Durand Line and the administrative quagmires that are FATA and the FRs, that unnecessary tragedies such as this occur. They're literally black-holes for criminal activity-abject of any government authority.

It’s like you’re playing a game of tag and the designated safety-zone(s)/home after “tagging” someone (committing a crime) is the tribal areas. Until these areas are not brought into the mainstream or the illegality of the Durand Line, along with the Baloch and Karakorum (Gilgit-Baltisitan) issues are not addressed, problems like this will continue to persist.

All the more reason to facilitate the return of those refugees and seal the durand

I disagree. If you'd actually been there, you’d know that the Durand Line is humanly impossible to seal. Second; pakistan has hundreds of NGOs and bureaucrats committed to the repatriation of Afghan refugees; the prospect of Pashtun secession represents a much greater threat to the pakistani establishment than would any external foe. And it’s not like the pakistani government wants to keep refugees, they’d much rather they all go home because they’re a burden on their economy, which is ironically the same reason Afghanistan isn't too keen on bringing them back ASAP.

Fact is, many Afghan refugees have lived and grown up in pakistan and don’t want to leave (be it social, security or economic reasons). I make the case that they be given citizenship; at least that way-on paper-they won't have their rights infringed upon and will have the opportunity to earn an equal wage.

Finally, Pashtuns on both sides are family. This was an isolate unfortunate incident and it could have happened to anyone.


Update: Apparently the constable wasn’t a real constable at all. Turns out he’s a community police official on contract with the KPK police department. Its part of a program that was introduced after Swat, where vigilant members in certain communities are awarded temporary contracts to fill vacancies in their respective districts, until new recruits can be trained.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrin...ID=89934&Cat=2

[Afghanistan2010]

martyr my foot. dogs die with alot more dignity. don't you dare glorify this.

i look forward that a car drives over your foot.