Just wondering why the pti members, families,friends,elderly relatives are treated as terrorist and picked up by na maloom afrad then charged under terrorism act ,so probably out 14k , 7k would attributed towards PTI yet they are the patriotic party of all the parties in the country.
Please see my post above and consider - when you have mob justice prevalent in an institution and it becomes the norm to bypass the existing judicial system which also cannot hold them accountable then it doesn’t matter what reason you exercise excess on.
However, to simplify it only to “unknown agents” from one institution is partly missing the rot in the system.
My cousin was picked up while holding a placard in a protest by Sindh Police - who then electrocuted him and so on. There was no one from the Karachi cantt office of aabpara or otherwise even present. It was plain Sindh police acting on the orders of Asif Zardari who agreed to participate with the heavy hand. Eventually his Commodre retd father was able to find him but was told to hush it out by white shalwar kameez as well. The simple reality was it was current establishment’s direction to stop protests but PPP implementation of that to their armed force( sindh police and others) that resulted in a young man scarred for life.
At the end the same could apply to regular Baloch activists protesting except in that case there probably isn’t anyone to save them so to prevent them from speaking out against torture because the agencies are looking for that 1 guy out of 100 to get information from - either they get silenced or they get riddled with bullets and dumped.
Now, don’t take this as a blanket statement because the earlier aspects of actual terrorists also slipping through the cracks applies where it may be beneficial to actually riddle them with bullets.
But it is a simple indictment of a FAILED state that has little in the way or working system that can provide justice at any level or any aspect of society. In such a FAILED state - in an UNJUST society - not only will anti state elements exist but that no distinction will exist in terms of rightful protest or terrorism because there isn’t a state but powerful people and their employees who aren’t accountable to anyone.
The only hope there is if one of those powerful employees is able to hold people accountable or that the state is burned to the ground in a manner ala Bangladesh.
That - is an impossibility for an artificial forced gathering of people as in Pakistan who have not yet truly adopted the identity or are simply too disenchanted with the state to begin with.
Remember, BD, Nepal and Sri Lanka was all led at the forefront by students or middle class.
You can kill 20 million poor in Pakistan and I guarantee that no mass change will happen until the middle class gets involved (Guess who were the galvanizing voters for PTI) . There is no value nor desire for change those poor souls can bring because they are too far down maslow’s pyramid to do much without getting direction from a class above.
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