A video has gone viral on the social media recently showing a very big quantity of gold bangles packed in various suit cases recovered during the course of a police raid on the house of Agha Siraj Durrani, speaker of the Sind National Assembly and a prominent PPP leader. Sometime back Pakistani currency worth billion of rupees had also been recovered by the NAB from the house of a secretary in the Balochistan government allegedly involved in corruption cases. It goes without saying that most of the corrupt people, who cannot account for their ill-gotten money, do buy gold with it which they then dump in their dwellings in order to escape its documentation.
It is, however, noticed that the media in this country which enthusiastically reports such cases after their occurrence very soon forget to follow them up with the result that the man in the street remains in the dark about the fate of the criminal cases registered against those corrupt people from whom gold or cash worth billion of rupees is recovered. An MPA of Balochistan Assembly belonging to an influential political family some time back crushed to death under the wheels of his posh jeep due to rash driving a traffic police constable performing duty right in the middle of the road. He was apparently drunk. The incident had been recorded by a CCTV camera. Initial reports indicated that he tried to patch up the matter with the next of kin and wife of the killed policeman by offering them a ransom which they refused to accept but what happened afterwards nobody knows as the media forgot to follow up the said episode. Isn’t it the responsibility of the crime reporters of the media to keep their viewers and readers abreast of the fate of such cases?
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