Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Rallies / Protests
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SteppeWolff
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Maulanas? That's gotta be a joke. Most of these Maulana and Religious parties are paid Clowns. Nothing more.
Be dazzled
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Things will never be the same after last night. This gash is deep enough to last a lifetime. I used to defend the institutions over my lungs. No more. Not in this life. Same goes for a huge chunk of Pakistani populace.
lightning f57
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I dont think its far fetched to say this policy set by those in charge will lead to increased terrorists attacks against army and rangers.
SteppeWolff
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Many people here can relate. I still haven't gotten over it
Awwad
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Correction: Against a terrorist army by freedom fighters.
That's what is changed with absolute clarity.
Reichmarshal
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Must listen
Jango
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After seeing the wonderful results of our strategic planners in Afghanistan, Kashmir, Middle East, and the whole world, I have no reason to doubt that Sipah Salar Hafiz Asim Munir Retd has a great strategy up his sleeve.
Tamerlane
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Western media’s concern about democracy in Pakistan is no different than their concern about human rights in Gaza.
The Anglo-Zionist West wants to keep Pakistan suppressed in every way, militarily, economically etc. and they know that the best way to do that is to support the Pakistan Army. They’re not going to bring Imran Khan into power so that he talks against Israel.
I don’t know why people are surprised that they killed 100 Pakistanis when the numbers of Pakistanis they’ve killed in East Pakistan, Baluchistan, KPK, Sindh, Karachi etc. is in the hundreds of thousands, if not in the millions.
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If only they knew what they lost. I had faith in them come what may they'll never shoot their own like they refused in 77-78. They proved how outrageously wrong I was to have faith in them. Snipping a 17 year old? For what? Then eliminating hundreds just to impose authority or satisfy their criminal egos? To prove what?
Every pharoah had his day. They had theirs.
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Jango
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Same here.
Always thought that let's just restrict everything to 4/5 people at the top, but seeing the vide yesterday of the Rangers guy pushing a kneeling guy off the edge, I am now just distraught more than anything. We have turned into NK or Sudan.
WTF was that moron even trying to do? I hope he rots in hell.
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‘Imran agreed to divert march but Bushra vetoed the idea’
Ismail KhanNovember 27, 2024
KP CM Ali Amin Gandapur, Bushra Bibi and Opposition Leader in NA Omar Ayub are seen atop a container during the protest in Islamabad.—Reuters
• Barrister Saif reveals what transpired during late-night meetings at Adiala jail
• Sources say Bushra is asserting herself, putting CM Gandapur in a bind
• Ministers accuse former first lady of “hijacking” PTI’s decision-making, “orchestrating violence” by protesters
PESHAWAR: Physical and technological obstacles, coupled with the intransigence of former first lady Bushra Bibi, foiled last ditch efforts to peacefully resolve the issue of PTI’s protest march towards Islamabad’s D-Chowk, credible sources familiar with behind-the-scenes efforts told Dawn.
The government also blames her for “sabotaging” the negotiations for an alternate protest venue and “orchestrating” violence by the party’s supporters.
Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, the KP chief minister’s aide and spokesperson, confirmed that efforts had begun in earnest on Monday night to persuade the PTI leadership to stop short of Islamabad and divert to Sangjani — located on the outskirts of the capital.
He also confirmed that the party chairman had reluctantly agreed to pass on this message to KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur.
“Khan sahib was extremely agitated and annoyed at the treatment being meted out to him in his prison cell, but after a lot of discussions that also covered the Islamabad High Court ruling, he reluctantly agreed to stop the march at the city limits,” he told Dawn.
“He (Imran) said he would leave it to party leaders to decide what to do, provided it led to solid negotiations with the government that would result in his release and the withdrawal of cases against him and other party leaders including Dr Yasmin Rashid and Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed and others.”
“We made a lot of efforts to find a peaceful way to resolve the issue. Both sides have toughened their positions. It has now entered into a critical and very sensitive phase. One wrong move and we will have a very serious situation at hand,” Saif said.
A source privy to these developments confided that there were a lot of intense efforts to broker a compromise.
“Efforts were made to arrange a telephone call between the jailed party chairman and Gandapur,” the source said, adding, “There were signal issues but the message was conveyed”.
“By the time efforts were made to re-establish contact with Ali Amin and others, the rally had already entered Islamabad. It was too late by then,” Barrister Saif told Dawn when asked about the sequence of events.
Bushra Bibi “was aggressive. She was defiant”, the source said, adding that she refused to listen to CM Gandapur, instead demanding that the party chairman speak to her directly through a video call, but this was not possible due to technical and other issues.
Originally, the sources said, Bushra Bibi was supposed to stay back in Peshawar, but the dynamics changed completely when she suddenly decided to hop on the truck and lead the protest herself.
“It made matters more complicated”, the source said, adding: “Workers were charged and they were no longer listening to Ali Amin.”
According to the insider, “[Bushra] is now calling the shots and [CM Gandapur] is playing second fiddle.”
The situation became more volatile when a vehicle mowed down Rangers personnel, the source said.
“There is literally an eye-ball-to-eye ball situation at D-Chowk”, the source said. “Ali Amin is under pressure. He is stuck between a rock and a hard place.”
This impression is lent credence by Bushra Bibi’s actions on Tuesday evening.
In a speech to charged protesters camped out a few kilometres from the high-security Red Zone, she urged them to move towards D-Chowk and extolled them to take Ali Amin Gandapur along with them.
While the federal government is nervously waiting for the protesters’ next move, party leaders are scrambling to figure out how to avoid the situation from further escalation, Barrister Saif said.
According to sources, the party is now “trying to figure out what the Plan-B is”.
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Ministers blame Bushra
In back-to-back press conferences on Tuesday, federal ministers accused the PTI of reneging on the agreement to hold their demonstration at Sangjani, on the outskirts of Islamabad and not enter the Red Zone.“[T]here is a secret leadership controlling things in the background; the entire [frontline] leadership is [powerless] in front of them,” Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said, without naming Ms Bibi.
The PTI leadership wanted to talk, but “that one secret leader” sabotaged the process.
