This photo is from today’s Dawn. It shows protesting lawyers damaging public property in Multan.
The ability to protest against that which they consider unjust is everybody’s right. But there is a fine line between peaceful protest and anarchy. Damaging property is definitely wrong and serves no one’s interest. It certainly does not serve the interest of the lawyers movement for democracy.
Violence is clearly wrong. It becomes no less or no more wrong when it is committed by protesting lawyers than when it is done by government against the same protesting lawyers. Just as we have called out against violence committed against protesters by government agencies, we must also call out aginst violence committed by them.
Anger is neither a strategy nor an excuse. The principle is a clear one: Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it and no matter why.
This is very unfortunate. In Pakistan we have no ethics when it come to protesting, people would go around burn cars, damage shops and even beat people who oppose them. This lawyer is not the only one who has behaved badly. I saw pictures of lawyers beating police with sticks in lahore yesterday (shown by geo in uk). Soon there was more police and then they took the miky out of the lawyers.
No one stops peaceful protests and i think, Police does not retaliate until these peaceful protests start breaking laws.
Khair, police does wrong too,I think we need to educate people, Media has important role to play here, they should educate people and when showing such pictures/videos they should criticise them harshly.
Just an example kuffar stoned Prophit Muhammad but he didn’t even curse them. should these lawyers be abusing public property like this? I think NO.
Here is another picture from the same “clash” in Multan
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//071 206/481/27bdf7d2ec404b92a9d56f6c89aee8b1/#/071206/ 481/45c60f05829c43f6848aa6a62a23e38c
Please forgive my use of words “depravity” and “bankruptcy” as I felt myself justified in my anger on this post. This lawyer movement is going on since March 2007, and there have been hundreds of similar pictures in which innocent and unarmed people for gruesomely thrashed by the gestapo force of mad dictator , and we found only one picture depicting the anger of lawyers against these brutalities and ATP found that the picture must be displayed prominently on their web site. Which intentionaly or “unintentionaly” tries to poison this struggle. Please checkout all the world media , check “Yahoo Full Coverage” , “Google News Search” , Guardian UK, Independent UK and may be many others and you will see how these clashes have been reported by the independent media.
I would also like to show some pictures from the developed world (US & West) in which people clash with police and use the same “Violent” behavior to vent their anger.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/world/europe/27p aris.html?ref=world
http://www.knbc.com/news/13257382/detail.html
So my request to ATP is give the proper context to this story and also put the pictures of police brutality. And also please read this wikipedia entry about “Police Riot” :
@Owais Mughal
And let us please put this picture
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//071 206/481/27bdf7d2ec404b92a9d56f6c89aee8b1/
alongside the picture you showed , to give the correct context of this “Violent” behavior , it will also tell how the term “Violence” is relative in nature.
now people are comming out of their shells to show their REAL FACES by supporting this unjust act of lawyers.
Pakistanis certainly dont deserve respect , because they dont have respect for thier own country.
Look at the moral deparavity or should I say intellectual backruptcy of the people who would like to show this picture prominently on the first page of this blog and then others posting remarks about how much they condemn this “Brutal” , “Wrongful” , “Illegal” and “Voilent” act.
Let us be honest , and use the terms in their right context. This is a movement against the most ruthless dictator of 21st century, the gustapo force of this mad dictator is using all “VIOLENT” means to suppress the vioce of innocent and unarmed people who come on street to peacefully protest. A human being has a limited capacity of enduring the violence specially if they are in a group and have means to respond back. Remember these people in black coats are not robots who come on street and against the “BRUTAL” use of force they would just endure it.
Owais Mughal said
No wrong is not an absolute term Mr. Owais , killing a person is “Wrong” , but killing a person in your defence is always “Right” and has been recognised as the right of a person to use in danger.
Those who always like to bring “the image of Pakistan” being affected by this. It is a matter of shame that people are not ashamed of that a ruthless dictator in 21st century dismissed the whole superior judiciary in Pakistan , which has no parallels in history not even in “Banana Republics”.
The struggle of lawyers and civil society against the dictatorship is a matter of great pride for every Pakistani, these images on world media shows how much Pakistani civil society is alive and conscious of their rights and how much courageous they are to defend these rights.
just a word here… we need some serious ‘attitude’ education plus etiquettes in a state of mental depression and anger.
You are absolutely right Daktar! but you know what, one does get hurt when one’s lover, in this case Pakistan is being reflected with a picture so bad. It is not that we are against projecting realities but who knows, what an epic is behind the picture.
Maybe if we all worried a little less about the image of Pakistan and more about its reality we end up doing more good to Pakistan.