Tahirul Qadri's long march

[Captain1]

Re: Tahirul Qadri’s long march

@phoenixdesi

well lets have a balanced version of the event…

now that this whole episode is over, everyone knows that there was no foreign power involved..no army or intelligence agency was involved either…otherwise the final output wud be very different with few dozen dead bodies all over the place…and army wud have taken over by now…poor army itself had no idea what is going on…even army admitted that in ISPR conference multiple times…so all conspiracy theorists were plain idiots…

also give the credit where it is due and be unbiased…the simple fact is that Qadri is a smart guy who picked up few political tricks from western political system and used them masterfully in Pakistani slow politics

he knew that “speed”, “surprise” and “media presence” are everything in modern politics…so he made his moves very fast and made an excellent use of his organizational sources from Minhaj to surprise everyone plus he did some phenomenal media management…and we in pak are not used to all this…

plus he is by far one of the best public speakers in Pak… not to mention that his followers showed some exceptional discipline…and yes we are not used to that either…we like to burn buildings if there are 200 of us together on streets…

plus hatred against PMLN and PPP is all time high and Qadri cashed it perfectly…so great timing…and this long march will have its impact from trend setting standpoint…every long march in Pak from hereon will be compared to Qadri’s march…

PPP and PMLN governments overall showed political maturity..did not usE force and kept on engagingly qadri in talks and finally resolved everything peacefully…this is A HUGE POSITIVE SIGN FOR PAKISTANI POLITICS.

so these are some plain facts and shd be acknowledged… ..but we just like to go by conspiracy theories…we only want to hear what we want to hear…

and yes we shd also keep in mind shallowness and cheapness of Qadri which is also a fact…his demands were all fair but he knew he had no power to get them approved…in a nutshell, Qadri is nothing but another opportunist and this whole dharna was a platform to stage another comeback into politics…but the process itself had certain pros for Pakistani politics as discussed above

overall, mission accomplished and job well done Qadri.

if that was his task ‘re-enter politics with a bang’ then yes job well done but I don’t see his party making an impact on elections at all.