Cries For Justice Hushed In A Well

Asem Mustafa Awan

She was holding the holy scripture begging all to help her in the release of her sons kept in illegal detention of Provincial Minister Abdul Rehman Khetran but her viral video that shook the entire nation earlier is now faced with a dilemma as she along with her two sons is now no more.
The bullet-riddled bodies of Giran Naz and her two sons Muhammad Nawaz, 22, and Abdul Qadir, 15, were found in a well with mutilated faces in a well in Barkhan.
Her pleas went on deaf ears as she was from the segment of society who die in quest for justice and often pay the price in the form of their lives as their dead bodies make the news.
She pleaded for the lives of her sons accusing the minister for keeping not one but seven of her children in illegal detention making a total of eight and with three dead, the whereabouts of the remaining five are not known.
The three dead bodies are in front of state offices housing the chief minister’s residence and inspector general of police. The clock is ticking and it has been days and the world is focused on Pakistan and its judicial system.
The deceased from the Marri tribe in Balochistan have clan members staging a protest sitting in front of the ‘people who mattered’ for the release of the remaining children and the arrest of the murderer.
Mai Jindo’s story Tando Bahawal Case is not forgotten when she lost her two sons and son-in-law besides other family members in 1992 who were killed in a land dispute but were branded as terrorists first.
She even sacrificed her two daughters Hakimzadi and Zaibun Nisa who self-immolated themselves in front of the Anti-Terrorist Court on September 11, 1996, seeking the justice that was denied since 1992. September 11 is also the death anniversary of the founding father of the nation Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah who after making this homeland did not survive long and thieves in pursuit till date are robbing Pakistan of its resources.
Mai Jindo, a poor farmer who single-handedly took the system by the horns died some time ago as the cost she paid in seeking justice tells it all as to how the system works in Pakistan.
The land of the pure is now the ‘land of the poor’ where might is right and law if it exists makes only but a good reading for the few who are blessed enough to be literate.

The writer is a journalist based in Islamabad and writes on a wide range of issues.