The Karachi mayhem: some bitter facts.

[Haris]

Re: The Karachi mayhem: some bitter facts.

@Aalsi

All groups who were in Karachi on 12 May are to blame, and none is blameless.

The Karachi mayhem: some bitter facts

‘The lawyers’ community, campaigning in favour of the suspended Chief Justice, also needs to review tactics, which are transforming a purely legal issue into a political one, creating law and order problems in an already volatile environment. The fate of the suspended Chief Justice has to be decided in the court, not on the streets. Judges, anywhere in the world, are not supposed to lead rallies. The suspended Chief Justice could have gone and addressed the bar in Karachi without trying to lead a rally in a city, which is now notorious not just for its history of violence and terrorism, but also for its traffic jams. The government’s offer to take the Chief Justice to the bar was there, but sadly it was turned down – underlining the fact that each and every player wanted a showdown regardless of the human price and turmoil in the battered city called Karachi.’

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=56050](http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=56050)

:k: Very well put by the writer.