Salman Raja says 8 confirmed and 12 unconfimed.. folks seem to be inlcuding injured as dead and posting pics from gaza as islamabad.
All sorts of disinformation from both sides is in full swing - the issue is that there is a corrupt cabal from the worst throes of the system In charge - but the opposite end is the result of hopes and dreams of people wanting change led by an egomaniac who was happy to call Bajwa “Boss” but now lost matches and instead of analyzing why(melisandre) his first term got him in trouble doubled down in the cornered old tiger mode without any clear strategy.
I want a change and yet I want peaceful protests flopped in the first try.
Why? You had not fully convinced the masses yet even if the significant power you had you chose to give vague guidelines and leave ground directions to sycophants and flip floppers.
Then, after all these trumped up charges instead of understanding the need to mobilize masses using core ideals of shelter, food and freedom - where you could have brought the entire KP in - you are relying on the existing believers and the small mass from Punjab who came - the rest are either PML(N) , TLP or waiting for their chance to Danki.
Islamabad could not care because they all want to explore sexuality and celebrate LGBTQ - Pindi is ready to serve any cantonment since Alexander the great.
Lahore sent its middle class while its elites all are ready to get down on their knees to Nooners and Hafiz jee while they wait for javed akhtar to return so they can press his feet.
Karachi is disenfranchised and doesn’t care or is busy getting high- they were sold to Zardari by the establishment long ago and even you did not try during your time - and now forgot about them completely in your latest mobilization. You dont have any foot soldiers there because what works there are enforcer arms - Zardari has Sindh police, criminals and feudals , Army has Rangers and IsI, ANP has smugglers and criminals and MQM has lost any - cannot do much there.
So exactly what was the strategy here?
Occupy D-chowk?
Then what?
Who did you have for leadership on the ground?
A delusional wannabe sorceress who feeds jinn?
A man who is dying to get out of PTI but cannot due to fear of being killed?
All the while you are fed half baked information from those that meet you in the jail cell.
Pakistan is a failed banana republic - not just because of the system but because it is an artificial entity created on the ideals of the educated lot from Aligarh who made a devil’s bargain with self serving unionists and convinced a really good activist lawyer that this would be his magnum opus - and he realized it on his death bed that he had been a fool