ISLAMABAD: Senior judge Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faez Isa has asked “For how long will we be scared of terrorists?”
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Commenting on the bombing during a Supreme Court hearing today, Justice Qazi Faez Isa said: “It is being said that terrorists should be given this and that … sometimes it is said that negotiations should be done with terrorists … where is the state in all this,” he asked.
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Justice Isa questioned why negotiations were being held with terrorists, adding that “today they have killed two people, tomorrow they will kill five”.
Justice Qazi Isa also said that a person could not be declared a “good Muslim” merely on the basis of their “long beards”.
“What kind of a society are we living in? A judge of ours was killed but no one cares,” he added, referring to the recent killing former Supreme Court Bar Association president Latif Afridi in Peshawar.
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