Their very own empire

While waiting at the manned railway crossing on Toba Road a few days ago, I witnessed the law thrown to the wind by none other than the long arm of the law itself – the Punjab police. As a senior police official approached the junction, members of his squad bullied the railway worker into flinging the gates wide open – the train was metres away.

Such violation of the law in front of everyone by those who are meant to uphold it was utterly revolting. And then I recalled how Quaid-e-Azam had once told his driver not to violate traffic rules for if he as the governor-general would hold the law in contempt, then so would others. Perhaps our bureaucracy and the police still consider themselves to be living in the times of the Raj.

Bilal Dogar

Jhang