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.
All the people calling this article unfair and there are not enough articles on other issues. You all very funny and this shows the intelligence level of you all.
Wajid Malk, have you ever read things on this blog…. here are answers to what you ask:
Can these shameless people tell whether they created such issues when a PM was hanged/put in exile/put in jails.
ATP WAS NOT FUNCTIONING THEN BUT HAS WRITTEN ABOUT IT SINCE.
Did they create an issue when Chied Justice was humiliated on roads and was/is house arrested.
YES, MADE A MAJOR ISSUE. REPEATEDLY WROTE ABOUT AND PUT PICTURES OF THAT HUMILIATION WHEN ALL THE LOTAS OF TODAY WERE SILENT.
Did they create an issue on the way 60% or more judges were deposed and were house arrested?
YES, LOOK AT RIGHT HAND COLUMN FOR LINKS TO THOSE POSTS
Did they make an issue when MQM thugs killed aout 50 and injured hundreds on May 12 and their Mush said MQM showed power?
YES, HUGE ISSUE. I REMEMBER THAT FOR MANY DAYS THAT WAS ONLY THING AND THERE WAS A LONG POST WITH DOZENS OF PICTURES AND CONSTANT UPDATES AT THE TIME ITSELF.
Did they create an issue when civil society, lawyers and jounalists were being beaten throughout Pakistan?
YES, THEY DID. AGAIN, LOOK AT LINKS ON RIGHT HAND COLUMN ON THIS.
Did these people make an issue when women were beaten by male police in Lahore?
SEE ABOVE.
When police doesn
How many of you think Mushraf will go before next 5 yrs? Lets be honest? Now if we all believe Mushraf is there to stay for next 5 yrs. Then what is this destruction of your own country? Only way Mushraf will go before next 5 yrs is if the people of Pakistan come into streets in millions of numbers. I think people who are crying about these images of lawyers with head bleeding are trying to bring people into streets. But that has not happened. One wonders why? Why people of Pakistan has given up on giving life for politicians? They have a past record now. Pakistan has aged more than 60 yrs now and people of Pakistan know better what has happened in Past.
Produce a leader like Jinnah then people will come in the streets.
Adil you’ll need to take over the site again. Owais is going to run this into the ground with articles like this, he already has. Atleast Adil tries to balanced and is a more savvy journalist.
Owais, you ought to be ashamed for this post. You need to apologize to the entire nation, especially the lawyers.
when the govt is treating the nations sisters like this than everything and reaction is right and justified
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