Adil Najam
This photograph of lawyer leader Aitzaz Ahsan on top of an ambulance putting his hand together and begging for peace and a stop to the needless violence by some who are ‘supposedly’ his supporters, speaks volumes. It speaks volumes about Aitizaz Ahsan; volumes about the culture of anger and violence that has gripped Pakistan, and volumes about the the state of Pakistan politics. A sense of anger and angst continues to define Pakistan.
Read also, Aitizaz Ahsan’s letter to his fellow lawyers, back in December.
Whether the violence is the result of nefarious ‘agency’ designs to discredit the lawyers movement or the disgruntlement of frustrations within the movement, it does not bode well for the country and for democracy in the country. It may serve the short-term interests of some, but it cannot be in the long-term interests of Pakistan.
The pictures (above) of mayhem and violence on the streets of Pakistan are are equally articulate about the state of affairs in Pakistan.
Faraz. I agree to your recent comment. Then what do you think, how can an alternate sincere leadership be brought up?
aquarian well you said
“Unless and until a sincere, alternate leadership does not come into play in Urban Sindh, same people will keep getting elected.”
Well as long as Mr Altaf is live it can not happen. He will kill any urdu speaking leader which is seen as alternative to him. We all know who kill Azim Tariq. He is a curse to MQM as well to Karachi and urdu speaking people.
@ Yasir Aziz
“aap ki baaten sahih hain” BUT is there any alternate leadership that people of Urban Sindh can trust ??? Many people know the current leadership of Urban Sindh is everything that you suggested in your comment but when it comes to elections, please tell me a single name across Pakistan that people of Urban Sindh can trust to safeguard their rights.
Pick up any name out of current leaders of Pakistan and they’ve all bitten (or have kept quiet at seeing injustice being done to) Urban sindh.
Unless and until a sincere, alternate leadership does not come into play in Urban Sindh, same people will keep getting elected.
The violence that has gripped Pakistan from one corner to the other for all sorts of reasons is very disturbing. Everyone, from religious fanatics to liberal revolutionaries to nationalists seem to think that the only way to get their demands is to hurt, kill or put on fire. We really need to move to a different place where people can think that their voice will be heard even if they do not indulge in violence.
This is really a very disappointing position. And I am sick of MQM. They just creating Havoc to be included in the Govt.
What I have noticed during my education at Punjab University and then onwar a look on politics, MQM and Islami Jamiat Tulaba always play their politics on the dead bodies of either their workers or innocent people. I don’t want to get into details as I have also been part of Jamiat for sometimes but this is reality.
Now burning people alive is the biggest of the cruality. May Allah show them the right path who have done this act of Burtality.
But I am really sick of MQM. Now they have realized that they have to come into govt by coming down under PPP, so they have started creating Havoc and Voilence in Karachi.
May Allah show them the right path and they stop doing and practing their politics on the dead bodies of people. Ameen.