Violating Citizens' Dignity.

Cruelty and social injustice allowing institutions to violate people's dignity with impunity are the most significant factors that weaken and create unbridgeable fissures in society. The recent incident in Peshawar, where police personnel mistreated an ordinary citizen has shocked the people. Seeing the video of the citizen made many people disgusted. One can only wonder if this is truly the real face of the much-reformed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police. Severe cases of abuse of police authority often stimulate intense public debate and protests as are happening in the present case. Instead of accepting their fault, the police, according to the latest news, also mauled the protestors.

Recent events around the world have made it clear that the lines between policing and excessive violence can easily get blurred if there is no transparency and accountability. Before anything else, the ones in higher echelons of authority need to ask themselves a few hard questions. They need to find answers to the subject of the forms of abuse that exist...