Wake-up call on road safety

For more than 30 families, the date September 26th will forever be etched in their minds as the parents' worst nightmare came true. A bus full of young students and a few faculty members from a private school in Faisalabad catapulted out of control when its brakes failed. The crash, which happened at the Kallar Kahar salt mines on M2 motorway, took the lives of at least 37 people, including more than 30 children, teachers, the vice principal, the bus driver and the conductor.

Vigilante (in)justice?

In a country where governance is at its lowest ebb and justice nowhere in sight, rising cases of citizens taking law into their own hands show the intensity of pent up aggression within the people. Recent reports from Faisalabad reveal the registering of an FIR by Sargodha Road Police against 100 people for attacking police officials who tried to rescue two robbery suspects that a mob was beating on Sunday.