By Dr Taimoor Ul Hassan
The entire country was blocked for a week, thousands of law enforcement agencies were deployed, and the army was called out, yet a few thousand comprising the jatha (mob) crossed every barrier leaving the policemen and rangers injured and reaching D Chowk. The police are inherently cowardly and weak and the so-called superior forces are carrying a defeatist mindset.
The entire country remained tense and life was paralyzed: the result was the Pathan dance in Islamabad and Mohsin Naqvi looking for a secret hand.
It is very simple: Mohsin Naqvi must resign. All slogan-mongering ministers and spokespersons including Ata and Uzama must resign. The world has seen enough of this tamasha. Education health and food supplies were disrupted in the name of this pathetic display of State defensive measures.
Pakistan exists without any State. It is a failed State that cannot remove a mosquito sitting on its nose. Let alone May 9, thousands whether Afghan Taliban or trained jathas have shown how weak this State has become. Stock markets are falling and foreign media is laughing at the security apparatus of a nuclear State.
The time has come to end showmanship and free the prisoner in Adiala Jail whose wife has made an entire institution appear like a standby spectator.
Pakistan cannot allow its people and children to continue to endure this constant mental torture. The Sharifs must go back to the UK and Zardari must spend the rest of his life playing with his grandchildren.
Enough is enough!
Note: The writer is a senior journalist and former Dean at the Faculty of Media & Mass Communication – FMMC, UCP, former Dean at Beaconhouse National University, and former Executive Editor at The Frontier Post.
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