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 a new low for this website. The name of this website should be changed to All For Musharraf.
Where are the pictures of brutal beating of lawyers (which happens almost daily), journalists, house arrests of judges etc?
I was expecting that this website would have mentioned the documentary on missing persons that is making the rounds on You Tube and Google Video. But then it would have too much for this websites biased administrators.
From what I have read, the police started beating the lawyers who were protesting peacefully, and then they retaliated by beating up the policemen. It’s easy to condemn the lawyers while sitting in a living room, but if you are actually in a protest and the police is hitting you, it’s difficult not to lose your cool. Even the law recognizes the right of a person to hit back in self-defense.
This post is seriously problematic because it is presenting the protestors as if they are the ones who started the violance. The comments in agreement with the post can only come from drawing room moralists who have never personally participated in a protest and had their heads bashed by the police sticks to know that its only human for people to get angry when they are being brutally attacked. First go and participate in a peaceful protest, endure police sticks without losing your cool and then you will have some weight in issuing these sermons.
Keep it up Boys, Boycott PCO Judges…..
@pejamistri… agreed. this is just a biased article… and like I said before freedom doesn’t come easy… not in a country like Pakistan…
@PaaJi.. unfortunetly man I don’t fully agree with you… how many foreign citizens can u stuff in little villages? the arms they have are the left overs of cold war and the result of the adventures of ISI in the past… the issue is debatable but what you are just saying what i hear on cnn and skynews… and as a muslim I have studied Islam enough to only consult a scholar when the truth is not as obvious… anyway there are other ways to tackle this problem because too many innocent people are dying as collateral damage…
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These talibans are not those village people.Many of them are not even Pakistani. There believe of beheading people to bring Islamic Law in Pakistan is wrong. Islam is better spread with good examples. There are many questions such as how they get weapons? who is funding them. These all questions lead to some politically motivation or to the enemy of Pakistan. These extremists are not peace full villagers. They are criminals and you can ask and Islamic scholar.