Re: The emerging civil society of Pakistan
PCG, this was in reference to ppls views about the emergency situation, and most ppl are not directly impacted and they dont really care, they may be annoyed, they may be angry but not enough to come out and start some masss movement.
forget Pakistanis in Pakistan..when the protestors in London had the rally in front of Pakistan high commission, ..for a city that has hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis, a 100 or so protestors means little.
as far as karachi falling to mullahs, its nto going to happen, Karachi had become very conservative undr zia because of 'nifaz e sharia" coming from the general himself, right now the govt is not pushign for anything like that, and with MQM present, its not going to happen.
MQM in this case is like your local neighbourhood ghunda, beats ppl up, collects bhatta, harasses ppl, but does not allow another ghunda to operate in his territory.