It starts raining in Islamabad and the PTI's activists start dancing and enjoying, women goes out of their senses and forget about their veil and participates in!. TUQ's sit in shows somewhat appreciable scene, women stand quietly, their bodies properly covered with raincoats, polythene bags, heads covered with dupatas and they carry umbrellas. Moreover, Ik showing immatureness by abusing Nawaz etc. It is not necessary to pass time by making the people dance or abuse others!.

SO Imran Khan has heard of the civil disobedience movement(CDM)! Is he also aware of the circumstances under which it was used by the Congress Party in India in the early 1940s of the last century? Congress governments, which were in power in most provinces in India, resigned and Gandhi announced his political`master stroke` at a time when the imperial power was fighting World War II against Hitler and imperial Japan. The Congress Party was the largest party in the subcontinent, with millions of workers in the country.

They were determined to make things difficult for the British in the South-East Asian theatre of war.

Pakistan is also fighting a war at this time. Is the intention of this CDM to create difficulties in this war? Can the Pakistan public tolerate this kind of rogue behaviour? In 1942, when Sir Stafford Cripps came with some very reasonable proposals for granting self-rule to India at the end of the war, Gandhi rejected these with the very famous remark that these constituted ` a post-dated cheque on a failing bank`. He lived to see a much worse fate for the subcontinent than the one Cripps had proposed. Imran had better read his history more intelligently! I wouldn`t venture to describe the so-called civil disobediance movement a complete damp squib. But as someone remarked it was difficult to see what effect the refusal to pay taxes would have since only government servants paid taxes on their salaries. Perhaps Im would do the government a good turn by getting more people to come into the tax net so that they could first refuse to pay taxes and then start paying them after the movement is ended.

But what about those poor deluded PTI workers and followers out on the roads of Islamabad with nowhere to rest? They should wake up to reality. The sit-in ain`t going nowhere. In the real world an elected government in power is their best bet. They are not helping the anti-colonial movement but just a fantasy of a Brown Sahib.

Dr Hamida Khuhro Karachi (2) IT is ironic that every Tom , Dick and Harry resort to what they thinl< is a long march in order to achieve advance selfaggrandisement at the cost of the nation.

If we go by definition, march means to move along steadily, usually in a rhythmic stride and in step with others. It is not supposed to be in SUVs or other means of transport.

The long march was undertaken by Mao Zedong as a military retreat by the Red Army in traversing about 9,000km over 370days to evade the pursuit of the Chinese National Army in the process of which about 60,000 people were killed.

As a strategy, civil disobedience was advanced by Henry David Thoreau in 1849 who was motivated by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.

Gandhi emulated it in the form of what is popularly known as the salt walk, which took place in 1930 and was an act of civil disobedience to protest against the salt tax, imposed by the British.

During the march, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from his home near Ahmedabad to the Arabian Sea, a distance of about 240 miles, and it resulted in the arrest of thousands of people, including Gandhi.

So, the point being made is that our politicians make a mockery of everything, manifesting their lack of knowledge and shortsightedness.

Saleem Raza Secretary( r), Govt of Balochistan Quetta (3) THROUGH this letter I request the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take suo motu action and summon Imran Khan and his allies to have them tried for violating Sections 1 and 2 of Articles 5 and 6 by calling for civil disobedience movement.

This movement is nothing but an act of high treason.

I also request the parliament to exercise its power conferred upon it by Article 6, Section 4 of the Constitution.

Lastly, I would request this nation to vehemently reject the civil disobedience movement. Long live democracy and Pakistan! Muhammad Haris Zohaib Karachi (4) THE country and the people are now cursed to pay for Imran Khan`s on-job learning. He will always learn the hard way and people will have to pay for it through the nose.

He has the ardour of a neophyte and the pride of an apt learner. This half-baked politician needs a lifetime to fledge for a flawless flight. This hard shell bigot will keep rolling full steam down a blind track only to jump it at the dead-end. This half-sighted visionary will comprehend the big picture pixel by pixel. This selfrighteous snob will cuddle the creed close to his chest and cold-shoulder public wisdom. This cricket savvy hotshot is uninitiated in statecraf t. This fund-raising champion is unschooled in the exigencies of public affairs.

Mr Khan will always drag feet in one rut after the other. No goading and pricking will budge him.

He is Robin Hood of sorts. He is theheroic outlaw fit only for a picturesque folklore, not a grand political epic. His actions spring from aristocratic codes of courtesy and condescension rather than the dictates of egalitarian ideals. His band of merry men are happily feeding on a pipe dream in the oblivion of a labyrinthine forest, ensconced at a cozy range from the royal court. Their misadventures are no material menace to its glory.

The lure of the alluring dream was too potent. Clouded now, yet it works its charm on the people to make their escape from the limbo impossible.
Source: Dawn newspaper

It has been relatively calm day apart from some customary speeches. COAS Rahil Sharif met PM today. Have they reached to some understanding, are we heading towards some conclusion? Look like they have!

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Originally Posted by Ranjha M S It has been relatively calm day apart from some customary speeches. COAS Rahil Sharif met PM today. Have they reached to some understanding, are we heading towards some conclusion? Look like they have!

Congrats, Finally Umpire has raised finger. Positive point of this whole episode is:- We have evolved Third force against PPP_PML(n) whereas Negative point is:- No Govt will complete its tenure atleast for next 10 years to come.

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Basically TUQ and IK ka sara josh GHQ ke aik isharay kee maar tha. No more demand for resignation? No more claims of new Pakistan? No more conviction to fight the "monarchy"? Sab kuch beh gya hay ab. But of course, PTI was fighting for democracy and to "change the status quo". What a boot-licking clown Imran is.

Wait . They have not said anything important till now .

With a crowd of thousands , you cannot expect anything like this , easily.

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Outcome will expose the Conspiracy / Actors / Directors / Writers and Producers.

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Actually , i am not quite sure about it . We would have to wait at least for a year . In Pakistan , people do not come to know real face of the picture so early .

Who knew it that after 6,7 years , Musharraf will be regarded as a Hero ; No one

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Beneficiary of that soap opera will make it easy for us to judge.

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Boot Licking? right.
Was it not Nawaz who chanted slogans of parliamentary supremacy at any cost and gave it as the sole reason for not resigning? What happened to the very same supremacy when he asked the Army to step in as an arbitrator for political mess?
It was he who asked the Army chief to step in, did he not? Implicitly, he accepted that the civil government has failed to reach a political settlement.

Yet another episode of Politicians inviting the Army to sweep the mess they created. Get ready for anti-Army rhetoric regardless of whatever solution the General proposes. Oh, you will be at the forefront of that "Anti-Army, Pro-Democracy and what not" bandwagon, won't you?
Apologies.

Ironically, the same Nawaz Shareef took a categorical stance against the Armed forces by implicit and explicit support to a private channel who had a track record of maligning the armed forces. Speeches of the members of the Cabinet, in particular Khwaja Asif, in chronological order seemed to be getting bolder despite the fact that Army had kept a safe distance from the parliament in the last 6 years. "Army on the Border, Politicians in the Parliament" rhetoric was never stronger than it was in the last few months.

Why, then, the honorable Prime Minister "requested" the Army to shift it's focus from the border to the Parliament house? Talking of Licking boots, it is Nawaz who is not only licking the boot, he is chomping on it in a last desperate attempt to save his government.


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Imran Khan Never relinquished his demand for PM's resignation. Neither did Tahirul-Qadri. Not until now. Stop spreading lies please.