THE extrajudicial killing by a senior superintendent of police of Nageebulllah, a 27-year-old aspiring model hailing from South Waziristan is a blatant example of the violation of Article 9 and 10A of the Constitution of Pakistan. The extrajudicial murder begs several questions.
Did Nageebulllah have a previous criminal record? If so, why was he not arrested and tried in a civil court? How is it that he had been living and running a clothes business in Karachi for so many years? One has to stretch one`s incredulity to infinite limits to believe the police version of events after hundreds of photos of Nageebullah as a model went viral. The most heartbreaking ones among them are of the hapless youth modelling with his little son, who seems no more than five or six years old. A very strange profile, indeed, of a terrorist or an extremist.
The police are supposed to be life-savers and not life-takers. Life is a fundamental right safeguarded in the constitution. It isgood to know that a high-powered impartial inquiry committee has been formed.
Let Nageebullah`s brutal murder be the rallying cry for civil society to say enough is enough and demand rule of justice not jungle law.
