Re: Why Pakistani people have not taken to the streets?
concept remains the same..
peopel are not rising up en masse..thats a fact.
reasons are either
they dont care they are scared they are stuck in apathy
which is it? or is it all?
do u know there was a protest at the offices of Pakistan consulate in chicago? it was so bad that not a single newspaper covered it.. and I dont see richard daley threatening to put away ppl for life or send them to gitmo, and last time i checked he was niethr a musharraf bussy nor an MQM don.
please do not take my words as supporting emergency, I am not.
I am just saying that for whatever reasons, people do nto seem to be doign much about it. The srorm of rhetoric in living rooms across the world in pakistan households is political masala talk.. that is it. a very minimal fraction of those ppl willa ctyally think of it as bad enough to actuaolly take any action.
Rebel, I can give you some answers on that.
First, the West talks, talks and talks. Criticizes Mushy's emergency very lightly and Media's Interest falls all of a sudden. Where there is no Media, there are no masses.
Secondly, (believe it or not, but I do believe in that) Pakistani consider Protests, Demos as something bad. So as soon as you start protesting (and that is in any case and anywhere) people will look as If you have committed a bloody crime. So that the "talking" you been mentioning will open new dimensions: "Oh! Look, there thats the one seen on TV protesting. " and so Mushy becomes side business in these talks. Basically a cultural and traditional problem in our Pakistani societies.
So either way, what would YOU do in such circumstances?!