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.
Adil,
Is it possible to limit the number of posts by a single person to no more than three? I notice that the discussions gets asymptototically out of hand and divergent.
Other thing this board has almost 90 percent posts by people are against Mushraf. Very strange I was att BBC board and 90% posts are in favor of Mushraf.
@Daktar
The question here is not supporting the violence, question is very simple , the post in question is at the very least “highly biased” , the writer of this post has given one side of the story in a highly provactive manner. And don’t tell me that in the picture of “young man protesting for his missing father ” the police side of story was not given :).
There is no question of promoting violence or asking for use of violent means to show your anger , nobody is doing that. Only question is that should a person be allowed to give a single sided face of “public anger” and completely ignore the brutality of police in the same clash.
I won’t object if the writer of this post just place the pictures of police brutalities, alongside this picture and may condemn the behavior of some of these people involved in this rioting.
PejMistry and friends, you are a funny lot.
The piture was originally published in Dawn. Right?
So, why is it OK if Dawn publishes it but not OK if a blog reproduces it?
ATP guys, have to hand it to you. People really think you are influential, even more influential than Dawn, that they want to influence your views on this. You guys really have a following, man!
I believe if Mafia makes the money by fooling people or from drugs and then later use it for good some times thats the only option left outside. USA is world power can eliminate the whole world withen few hours. Smart people will be friends with USA. Why not? If you can be friend with USA and become strong country in the process why not? Mushraf is doing just that but it makes many unhappy. You can see their anger on this board.