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.
uzr-e-gunaah..baad-az-gunaah..
Violence is wrong. the photo clearly shows it is not self defense. It is anarchy.
Agreed, that other side are no angels but so is not this group either. Moral high grounds are lost with violence and that is all the purpose of this post.
As far as police brrutality and violence is concerned, we’ve carried posts on that issue also from time to time.
The answer to this article is one liner…
“Freedom doesn’t come easy”… read this article..
http://sagemovement.blogspot.com/2007/12/forbidden -thoughts.html
I was a victim of brutal lathi charge during Ayub rule can therefore understand the frustration of lawyers,but they will end up hurting their very noble cause by turning to viokence.
Well said AK. I have previously seen Owais Mughal’s posts . He is an excellent writer and an observer. Every one is entitled to his opinion, but here I don’t agree with him. As I said earlier, Violence is violence, but the guilty parties are different. An entire repressive regime versus some individual acts of violence. They are not equal in their effect and magnitude. Therefore, this post is not balanced. It distorts the reality.
I am disappointed that you have only taken one picture from the events in Multan and posted it along with very one-sided comments. On other political websites, you will also find photos of lawyers’ blood-soaked clothes and open scalp wounds. The picture you have displayed reflects the anger and reaction of those who were in the crowd. Let me assure you Owais, if you were part of the demonstration, you would have reacted the same way to the police brutality as the lawyer has. It is human nature, emotions and passions run very high in such situations. Please stop taking the so called moral high ground and looking down upon other people whose struggle is just.