Pakistan police officer use a baton to control flood affected people who are trying to loot donated food from a bus at a roadside in Azakhel near Nowshera, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
This picture caused nausea to my younger daughter who is a student of BFA, Punjab University. She was rather a bit annoyed with me for inviting her to my PC to see this disgusting scene.
As I wrote on Facebook, what option these people had when they caught sight of a van full of flood relief goods? Please forget, for a moment, that both the security personnel and the old man are Muslims or Pakistanis. The only reality that counts here is that they are human beings and not from uncivilized and inaccessible jungles of Amazon or far flung African areas.
The police official may not have gone through the agony of pains that these people experienced after losing everything in floods and there is a definite possibility that they might have been deprived of any food, medicine and even sleep for days.
Whoever deputed this security personnel should have briefed him about how to treat this people regardless of their indisciplined behaviour, for they deserve every word and act of sympathy, cooperation and reassurance that the whole nation is with them in these hard times of their life.
I'm still feel outrageous at such an inhumane behaviour even 24 hours after first seeing this photo.
The security officers / officials and aid workers must remain cool and composed in such volatile and sometimes uncontrollable situations and try their level best to calm down the crowds.
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