Adil Najam
The Lawyer’s Long March from Lahore to Islamabad is literally hours away as I write this. Arrests of activists continue and a number have just been arrested in Lahore. As if things were not complicated enough, the unseating of the Shahbaz Sharif government in the Punjab and subsequent political developments have added new fuel of Pakistan’s many political fires.
The Zardari government, already losing some important allies from within its own ranks, has gone all out to make sure that the Long March does not succeed. The Lawyer’s movement and Nawaz Sharif (for rather different reasons) are going all out to make sure that it becomes a game changer. In the next many hours we will begin to get clues about which it will be.
Meanwhile, there can be no better commentary about where we have been and come from on this then these clips from now blocked GEO TV. It shows before and after ‘power’ comments from Farooq Niaq – until recently the PPP’s Law Minister and now Speaker of the Senate (and, therefore, next in line to the Presidency).
What Zia couldn’t do, what Musharraf was not able to deliver, Zardari has finally achieved. The first major break up of PPP is finally around the corner.
a ray of hope by lawyers movement,the turning point in a blessed way in the history.
To me, what’s most amazing about recent events is not that Zardari would attempt to do something like this, but the fact that he really is that much of an idiot to believe, even for one second, that he can get away with this! He’s giving politicians and crooks a bad name.
How can Farooq Naik live with himself after that video. It is amazing. Just amazing. And all this reversal in a matter of months.
This could in fact be a momentous turning point in history.