It's become routine now. Punjabi speakers going back to their home towns in Punjab from Balochistan are massacred almost every other month and the government is not at all concerned. It reminds one of the last few months of united Pakistan before it was dismembered. If the government does not do something to stop the killings immediately, we might see the country disintegrating again.
Usually, the terrorists stop a bus going to Punjab, order all the passengers to get out, then check their identity cards to find out which ones are Punjabis. One man miraculously escaped in the latest killing spree on 18 February because the details in his national identity card were in English, which the terrorists couldn't read.
The question arises, why can't the government have police squads escorting such buses? If the British could control lawlessness a century ago, surely it can be done now. But the usual response is "The President, Prime Minister, Chief Minister, etc have condemned the killings and have vowed that every effort will be made to arrest and punish the killers, blah blah blah". Something drastic needs to be done, and done immediately, before the situation gets out of hand.
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