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.
Mr Lahori.
Give evidence if any topic against Musharraf and his dictatorship or about his unconstitutional acts.
Any thing against agencies role in missing persons.
I disgaree totally. Lawyers have protested peacefully for a long time and every time they do so police charges them with batons.if you dont allow peaceful protest this is the reaction that will come out.there is no fault of lawyers in this. unless the govt. opens its eyes it is looking at an armed civil war
Paa Jii
Agree with you 100% this is been my view point. I have said many times Bush war in Iraq is worse acts for many Americans, but they do not come in streets and destroy their own country they are just waiting it out. Be civilized or give up your nukes. Act like a nuke power.
Allah Bless Pakistan
PAT EXPAT says:
Where are the pictures of brutal beating of lawyers (which happens almost daily), journalists, house arrests of judges etc?
HERE THEY ARE:
http://pakistaniat.com/2006/12/28/police-shame-pak istan/
http://pakistaniat.com/2007/03/12/pakistan-judicia ry-supreme-court-chief-justice-musharraf-iftikhar- police-brutality-beating-lawyers-protest/
http://pakistaniat.com/2007/05/12/karachi-burning- civil-war-firing-dead-violence-mqm-aaj/
http://pakistaniat.com/2007/11/16/paistan-protest- pictures-emergency/
I am sure there are more also.
This site is the Pakistani blog that remains unbiased andsticks to principles instead of slogans, lets please keep it that way.
Is it illegal? Yes, it is. But so was the storming of the Bastille