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.
Folks, we are back to our basic selves. I do not recall any civic lesson being taught in the schools…… Throughout my life I have only witness spontaneous eruption of violence at individual level and national level. When we say we are a product of feudal system then that is exactly what we are – good at feuding.
After every decade we as a nation deconstruct whatever blood went into constructing. It is a pity!
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.