Pakistani Politics - A Rant.

HRCP v/s Govt of Pakistan

So the current topic that everyone's been talking about is the treatment of the HRCP officials at the marathon. Dawn had a pretty good editorial on it, and everyone is outraged as to how the police could actually manhandle a woman like Asma Jehangir and break up the marathon on the pretext that the MMA might have attacked them, like they did in Gujaranwala a month ago.

However, HRCP is planning to have another marathon from Liberty to Kalma Chowk (read details here) on May 21st. Someone said to me that the HRCP is making too big a deal out of it and it was a non-issue - but that is completely untrue. On one hand, Musharraf claims that he is spreading 'enlightened moderation' and on the other hand, his hand picked members of the King's Party are adamant on stopping all marathons or activities of the like, just to keep the MMA happy. It should be an interesting day, May 21. I find it hard to predict at this point as to what the police or the MMA might do, since both the HRCP and the MMA are sticking to their guns.

Is it only me, or does this entire series of events appear too reminiscent of Zia's era?

posted by atrophyingsenses @ 8:33 PM