The crowd is their shield against prosecution. It lacks the will to put murder on top of its agenda. The killing of 100 children in Lahore in 1999 points not only to the callousness of society but also to the total incapacity of the state institutions to perform the function of law enforcement. There is no protection for common citizens against psychopaths on the prowl. The role of police brutality in turning a man into a beast cannot be over stressed.
Murder is a violation of the law.
This is so because there is a legal mechanism for redress of grievances. The underworld of drug Mafia, arms traders and smugglers has little to fear from the regular courts of law in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta or Peshawar or lower down in districts. Many killings in the dark secret world of money launders and drug and arms traffickers from the tribal belt in the north, to Karachi in the south fall into this category. Here, the state kills. It employs a variety of questionable and contrived methods to kill.