Re: Parda Utthne ke Baad bhi Sultan Rahi ko aaram na aaya
So hard to read sentences in Roman Urdu in long paragraph... but...
...Dude you wrote 10000000000% truth.
Another thing is that without Army's approval not a single sparrow can fly in Pakistan. And they are strong enough that they won't allow international sponsored agenda's of others to mess up D-Chowk like how it has been.
So using that simple logic, you know Army is behind it, somehow or the other. There is just no other explanation.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Armed Forces. I am a critic of them for their DHA plot-selling business or Askari Car Financing schemes but I have utmost respect for soldiers standing at borders to protect us. But it hurts me when this institution then wants to play god and mess up the political system.
Each and every sentence that you wrote is the truth. How Imran-o-Padri joined forces, how they moved together, how they are against whoever Army is against like Geo for exposing ISI, ex-CJP for exposing missing people and favouring Musharraf because he is one of the Army's.
Sohraab Mian usually writes in Urdu thats why i used roman Urdu (sorry I know it can be a major pain to read). Have you seen Dawn's editorial today? Really puts things in black and white:
Armys questionable decisions
By
Editorial
Updated about 7 hours ago
The carefully constructed veneer of neutrality that the army leadership had constructed through much of the national political crisis instigated by Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri has been torn apart.
Also Read: ISPR statement reactions: Balanced, ominous - hedged?
First, came the armys statement on Sunday, the third in a series of statements in recent days on the political crisis, which quite astonishingly elevated the legitimacy and credibility of the demands of Imran Khan, Tahirul Qadri and their violent protesters above that of the choices and actions of an elected government dealing with a political crisis.
Consider the sequence of events so far. When the army first publicly waded into the political crisis, it counselled restraint on all sides as though it was the government that fundamentally still had some questions hanging over its legitimacy simply because Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri alleged so.
Next, the army crept towards the Khan/Qadri camp by urging the government to facilitate negotiations as though it was the government that was being unreasonable, and not Mr Khan and Mr Qadri.
Now, staggeringly, the army has advised the government not to use force against violent protesters and essentially told it to make whatever concessions necessary to placate Mr Khan and Mr Qadri.
It is simply extraordinary that it is the PAT and PTI supporters who want to break into and occupy state buildings, but it is the government that has been rebuked.
Its as if the army is unaware rather, unwilling to acknowledge the constitutional scheme of things: it is the government that is supposed to give orders to the army, not the other way around.
The government has already issued its order: invoking Article 245.
On Saturday, as violent thugs attacked parliament, it was surely the armys duty to repel them.
But the soldiers stationed there did nothing and the army leadership the next day warned the government instead of the protesters which largely explains why the protesters were able to continue their pitched battles with the police and attacked the PTV headquarters yesterday.
If that were not enough, yesterday also brought another thunderbolt: this time from within the PTI with party president Javed Hashmi indicating that Mr Khan is essentially doing what he has been asked and encouraged to do by the army leadership.
It took the ISPR a few hours to respond with the inevitable denial, but a mere denial is inadequate at this point. The functioning of the state stands paralysed because a few thousand protesters and their leaders have laid siege to state institutions.
Where is the army condemnation of that?
Would the army allow even a handful of peaceful protesters to gather outside GHQ for a few hours?
The army is hardly being neutral. It is making a choice.
And, it is disappointing that choice is doing little to strengthen the constitutional, democratic and legitimate scheme of things.
Published in Dawn, September 2nd, 2014
