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.
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.
I think west doesn’t bother for any good in Pakistan. So I don’t think the reflected image from this picture could be that bad to be discussed that much. I think the picture of torture of women during protest by Imran Khan’s sister in Lahore and a school girl in Islamabad was a million times more pronounced in deteriorating the image of Pakistan. And against that the picture in questio is far less significant.