Passive police played with country's fate on 3/3'
LAHORE - Coward, careless, irresponsible, indifferent, liars,
lethargic and apathetic are a few adjectives aptly describing the
failed Punjab police, which let a handful of terrorists play with
Pakistan’s fate as a cricket-playing nation on March 3 this year,
when the Sri Lankan team was attacked, despite reports about RAW’s
attacks on the visiting team.
Above is the gist of the inquiry report - conducted into the
terrorist attack on the Lankans - in which all the concerned police
officers and officials have been found guilty on more than one
account, while being only good at passing the buck, which virtually
left a Sub-Inspector as the senior most ‘officer’ on duty and
responsible when cops from the Provincial Police Officers to the
constable left no stone unturned in proving themselves innocent. It
has been seen that orders and plans were transmitted from the PPO to
the Additional SHO sans considering the sensitivity of the issue and
their implementation, while security plans were accomplished on
paper only, as there was no adequate security arrangements on
ground.
They remained in deep slumber despite repeated reports about the
possible attacks on the visiting cricket team, which showed that the
police considered it as a routine affair. Moreover, the policemen
failed in envisaging the circumstances and challenges confronting
Pakistan, and instead relegated themselves to a matter-of-routine
situation, while running boogie-cum-fake messages of route clearance
from their comfort zones even when the routine deployment of the
force had not been made on the route. Even, those who reached the
scene, preferred either to flee from there or act as helpless
spectators exhibiting the highest degree of cowardice and lowest
level failure.
(The Nation: By: Ch Aamer Waqas Published: April 28, 2009)
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