Re: Long March Declaration — A post-mortem
Do you think TUQ who was demanding involvement of army and SC because he did not trusted present corrupt politicians is so stupid that he would leave everything on these politicians? Plus, do you think present corrupt bunch of politicians are so stupid that they would agree to TUQ demands without any meaningful pressure on them?
I believe that this agreement has backing of Pakistan army too and government was certain that if TUQ with his supports sitting next to Parliament and President house … orders his supporters to take over parliament and president house than military would not have stopped them … rather it is possible that military must have told the government to negotiate with TUQ else military was ready to take over the country, and that is the pressure that forced politicians to agree with TUQ.
Amongst those who was part of negotiation included politicians from all relevant parties, for instance PPP (Amin Fahim, Q Z kaira, Khursheed shah, Farooq Naik), PMLN (Mushahid Hussain), PML (Shujaat-Hussain), MQM (Farooq Sattar, Babar Ghauri), ANP, FATA representative, PKMAP (Mahmood Khan Achakzai) …
So, all these politicians representing their parties became negotiators and witness to the agreement that got signed by Prime Minister of the time … plus armed forces behind (and possibly SC) … plus threat of another protest if government backs down … is I think good enough reason that whatever agreed would get fulfilled.