Not everyone has condemned the murder of slain governor in unequivocal terms. Vast majority of people seem to be tacitly, in some cases even openly, approving the fate governor salman taseer met last evening. In no time, a facebook page has popped up in the honour of the killer qadri and it has garnered the fan-following of hundreds of users already.All this points towards some dangerous societal propensities where the heinousness of the cold-blooded murder ,as in case of the governor's, can be condoned by the vast majority of even so-called educated Pakistanis if warped with some dogmatic rhetoric. Reason and sanity have taken a back seat giving way to intolerance and madness. Where are we headed? Into a dark abyss, where else...
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My opinion piece in 'The News'
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1128744-the-job-begins-with-measurement
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