Re: Jail Breaks
yaar please. Its not the job of Imran or Qadri to determine who's arrest is legitimate to illegal, its the job of the courts. Imran is not a judge, so who the hell is he or any of his supporters to claim these arrests were illegal?!?!
I think you are ignorant of how laws work. laws do not work the way you are saying.
In UK (and probably in all western countries), police cannot even arrest anyone without telling them what law they broke and then they have to give them opportunity to discuss the issue with lawyers, before formal arrest. If Police gives wrong reasons or if you think police is harassing, then you can even persecute police and they would be in big trouble.
Actually in UK, if police stops me on road and ask me question then if I do not wish to answer, I can ask police the reason for questioning. If they do not give me justifiable reason, I can just walk away without answering them. If they insist than I can ask them if I am detained and if they say no then again I can walk away, and if they say yes, then that would be official reason and if I think their official reason is not justified, I can take them to court on that, where I can be sure that fair hearing would happen and I would get justice (if police found wrong then they may get punished, and i would get compensation).
No police can arrest me without giving reason for arrest and if I am innocent of that reason, I can use that to persecute police.
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If the PTI want to live in a democratic society, they can start by respecting the institutions that embody democracy.
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In no democracy there is section 144 ... nor police can arrest anyone without first giving them reason and not only that, but if police over step laws, they would be in big trouble.
Further, in democratic society, citizens are King and no police can use fire arms to kill citizen ... nor can beat citizen the way they do in Pakistan (if one can prove that particular police has beaten, then that policeman could be in deep trouble), so please do not compare what is happening in Pakistan with democratic society.
If there was democracy in Pakistan, most Pakistani parliamentarians would have been rotting in jail on various crimes, and what happened in last one month, Thug Nawaz, Thug Nisar, Thug Shahbaz, Thug Sanaullah and many other thugs of PMLN would not be sitting in parliament but would have been in prison fighting murder and other charges.
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At this point, the PTI and PAT workers can essentially get away with anything, and any action against them would be followed by accusations of heavy handedness on the part of the govt.
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From what I can see, it seems government of Gullu Shareef is getting away with murder and PTI as well as PAT workers are getting abused, persecuted, and killed for no reason. In western democracy, no police would have even dared to do a tenth of what Pakistani police have already done, and even if they had dared to do a tenth of what Pakistani police has done, they would have lost their jobs and would have been in jail.
In western democracy, nothing would have happened to PTI and PAT workers for their protests ... rather in many western democracy, whatever little shown about 2013 election, PTI and PAT would not even needed to come on road, rather government would have got sacked long time ago.