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.
This is absolutely right but for your comment.
Putting a gestopu force lashing out absolute brutality upon the lawyers on equal moral footing with the human rights activist responding to this brutality in most natural and human way of showing public anger.
Look at the pictures showing blood running out of heads of protesters. And you give the excuse that
@PaaJi
Just like the patriot act of uncle sam.. like rats, spy on your fellow countrymen… well thats a very “nice” thing you r telling everyone to do… the extremist forces are a part of this country as well; they always have been; we just have to realize that like uncle sam realized and started dialog with Talibans in Afghanistan.. the solution lies in dialog not in sneaking around… These forces always lived peacefully in our country; the bombs started blowing only a few years back as a consequence of our government’s actions… We have no right to say that the way of life of these “extremist” elements is wrong and we have no right to impose over them what we think is right… let them be.. let them live the way they want in their own little valleys they never crossed…
Shame on those who have tried to make an issue out of this picture.
Can these shameless people tell whether they created such issues when a PM was hanged/put in exile/put in jails.
Did they create an issue when Chied Justice was humiliated on roads and was/is house arrested.
Did they create an issue on the way 60% or more judges were deposed and were house arrested?
Did they make an issue when MQM thugs killed aout 50 and injured hundreds on May 12 and their Mush said MQM showed power?
Did they create an issue when civil society, lawyers and jounalists were being beaten throughout Pakistan?
Did these people make an issue when women were beaten by male police in Lahore?
When police doesn’t clash with people, they remain peaceful. Every one know the movement from March 9 to Jul 20. How peaceful it was.
But when police starts beating peaceful protesters they are NOT left with any options.
Behavior of these lawyers is exactly I have been crying out here. Country is under attack by extremists and enemy is inside Pakistan to provoke these kind of acts by Lawyers and other civilians in order to destabilize Pakistan.
Pakistan must wake up and smell the coffee, unite against extremists and enemy inside Pakistan.
Once again they will not attack Pakistan with Bombs as Pakistan is a nuclear power, They will provoke people among us to hurt Pakistan. Do not play into enemy’s hand. Be smart , keep ears and eyes open around you. Every Pakistani should act like a Pakistan Intelligence agency officer and report any activity which is not normal to the authority.
Following up on AK’s remarks that this picture represents only half of what happened in Multan. It is about one event in which lawyers are also brutality beaten. I am just assuming that Owais Mughal perhaps does not know all the details about this event. Had he known about the pictures of blood soaked lawyers, I am sure, he would have posted them too. In the name of fairness, can I request him to post the pictures of injured lawyers and their assailants as well. Only then this post against violence will make sense. I support Owais against violence.