Bazigaar:
ye sab bandits and crooks pak ame he kiyoon jama rehtay hain
That is a mil$ ques!
My assessment of Pak is that there are more criminals there then innocents. Sorry, that may hurt some feelings but let's look at it in this perspective. In general terms, do common people break law regularly, regardless of how trivial offense it may be? With close scruitny you will find find an affirmative answer.
We only see crime when others do it. We condone minor criminal acts of friends and family or at best acknowledge them as errors or mistakes but never recognize their crimies. We don't report them to LEAs.
Taking someone else's belonging is a common practise in Pak. Common people do that in different ways on daily basis. When there are riots, everybody who gets an opportunity turns into a thug and looter. The society in general is not "ameen".
Of course, On 27 Dec. there were high profile criminals who hit the gold that thay. But there were looters from local residents who settled scores, those who were looking for an opportunity to make up for their misfortunes in life and there were simple thrill seekers who found advanture in plundering other's hard earned belongings.
Generally, the mind set in Pak is that looting a richman's fortunes or that a business of a wealthy person is fairplay for it is rich persons fault that he/she got rich -- assumingly, ill-gotten wealth. Many people take upon themselves the responsibility to serve justice and claim their rights on such rich persons property.
On the other hand, miscreants destroy vehicles of middle and lower middle class and that of tranporters. Many of our columnists and writers present it that destruction of private property is a crime but it would have been a lesser crime if people had taken their frustration out on government property or that on the property of MNAs or their likes.
The point I am trying to make here is that a criminal act must not be condoned no matter how trivial it is. And if we do, how do we categorize a crime as trivial. May be burning government property is trivial and destruction of private property in not trivial. Loss of poor person is condemnable but that of a rich is acceptable!
Are we ever going to recognize bandits and crooks among our own?