Re: Why Pakistani people have not taken to the streets?
I don't see the masses on the streets of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore which she has visited over the last week. In fact in her home ditrict of Larkana oout of 2 million people, only 4000 people turned out to greet her, and this after reports that anti-BB graffiti was daubed on her father's grave. The people of Pakistan are not going to come out on the streets for twice tried and failed leaders like BB or Nawaz Sharif.
Brother, this is called writing on the wall. People are telling the politician, ‘leave us ignorant alone … do not make us fool again … we are satisfied with present government’ :)
Just imagine, before Musharraf, any politician in opposition could call people and people would respond, would come on road against government. JI made a mess of Lahore and many cities in Pakistan when they call people against NS and his invitation to Vajpayee. Many came on road when NS decided to pull forces from Kargil. Same situation was during BB rule, as whenever NS called people against BB, they said Lab-baik.
Anyhow, the situation is that, during last 8 years MMA (specially JI) threatened ‘million march’ million times. If one counts each of their threats is counted as ‘one person on road’, than their ‘million march’ has already happened without anyone coming on road. :)
Every call of PML(N) and NS went to deaf ears. When shahbaz landed in Islamabad, he was kicked out of Pakistan and no protest. When NS landed, there were not even stray dogs near the airport to receive him. *.
When BB came, even in her home town people did not had good words for her, and wrote disgusting slogans against her on her Dads grave (that is why it is said that if a person dies, at least they leave good children, such that instead of debasing the name of Dad, they give them honour).
In Islamabad, she had around 12 to 15 people wanted to hear her and in Lahore there was around 50 as most, whereas not a single place she could gather any crowd. [Bhai, yea na bolna kay, where is reference of all above claims, cause I heard that on GEO (Kashif from ARY) when some journalists after emergency were discussing emergency and what politicians can do].
Even in Karachi, although government facilitated her reception and MQM approved that, there were no more than 200,000 people on streets, what PPP love to call 3 million (actually most ignorant Pakistanis and many Journalists, translate ‘lac’ as million, so PPP as usual of our politicians increased the number from less than 2 lac to 3 lac, and then being ignorant started calling that 3 million :)).
Just imagine the fool-hardy believes of Pakistani politicians, that Imran knowing that he cannot gather people, went to PU hoping that maybe he could get some support from there, but what he got from students? Thappar and thudda, latayin and ghunsa, chatay and danda, something however sad, it shows respect for present government and hate for politicians in opposition.
This is what Ayaz Amir (a very bias journalist, who contested 2002 election for PNL(N), and became part of ARY journalist panel reporting lies and bias analysis) summarises opposition to Musharraf in Pakistan and his victory on them
‘Ayaz Amir (article: Freedom doesn’t come easy): His victories have been against the last outposts of liberal thought in Pakistan: the superior judiciary, the legal community, the media, political activists and students (from upscale schools and colleges).
This it clearly shows that there is no mass against President and even if there are students, they are from upscale schools and colleges.
Thing to note in his article is that he also realises that there is no sign of mass public support for opposition or that people are protesting against Musharraf, but it is few corrupt groups and ONLY students that are coming from corrupt backgrounds. In general, students are not against Musharraf, so ‘Ayaz Amir’ specified that by writing in bracket … ‘from upscale schools and colleges – in other words … children of corrupt politicians, corrupt judges, corrupt lawyers, corrupt yellow journalists, and corrupt bureaucrats, as in Pakistan mostly children of these people go to upscale schools and colleges.
As for other communities (majority of Pakistanis), their children goes to these upscale schools as well as lower class schools, schools for poor and middle class and government schools ... and they have no problems with present government. If all communities had problems, than children from all institutions would have been out on roads, irrespective of what school they came from.*