WEB DESK: The violation of law by the guardians of it has become a tough nut to crack in Pakistan and a recent display of it was evident in different parts of Punjab as the lawyers fired gunshots into the air to celebrate victory after Punjab Bar Council (PBC) Election official results.
Punjab Bar Council election were held in eight divisions of the province on Saturday.
The polls were organized on six seats of Bahawalpur division, five of Dera Ghazi Khan, seven of Faisalabad, 10 of Gujranwala, 22 of Lahore, 12 of Multan, seats of Rawalpindi and five seats of Sargodha.
As the elections were over and official results came out, rounds of celebratory firing by lawyers started in different cities of the province.
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The police became silent spectators and gave a free hand to the lawyers for their terrifying activity.
At some places, the daring lawyers were even seen hurling pejoratives at the policemen who tried to interfere and stop them.
تہنا ڈولفن اہلکار شدید ہوائی فائرنگ سن کر موقع پر پہنچا لیکن وہ کر بھی کیا سکتا تھا
بہر حال ڈولفن فورس کے اہلکار کو سلام@ImranKhanPTI @UsmanAKBuzdar @InamGhani @OfficialDPRPP pic.twitter.com/y3mVUEXXIU— Police Diary (@policediary15) November 30, 2020
The violation of law by those who are tasked to protect it is although absurd but has been overlooked for long in the country.
The governments restrict to booking the law practitioners on penal activity but they are never punished.
However, the newly-elected member of PBC Lahore Seth Zabiullah Nagra is determined to change things.
While Talking to News360, he put the onus on the law enforcement agencies and said incidents of aerial firing or arms display was failure of administration.
“Aerial firing is wrong in itself, be it done by anyone, an influential person or a common man”, Nagra said.
He said that there should be a punitive action on the violation of law to prevent occurrence of such incidents in future.