The Land of the Containers
By Dr. Ghayur Ayub
London , UK
Long live President Zardari for reliving the notion of using containers to block roads. The idea was introduced by MQM in Karachi to stop crowds from weloming Ch Ifikhar on May 12, 2007. That was the time when a ‘militarized democracy’ was spearheaded by an army chief as president.
The same tactic is repeated, this time countrywide, on the instruction of a civilian president. He happened to be the spouse of a great democracy lover and a leader of a party which always fought for the democratic rights of the people. Today, his advisor Rehman Malik has turned this country into the land of the containers whose owners have been told to seal their lips and digest their losses or else.
Apart from financial losses to the owners and an equal loss to the already bleeding economy of Pakistan; the human misery shown on the TV channels was enormous. Seeing the faces of those who could not move their patients or dead relatives because of road blocks was enough to bring tears in the eyes of even insensitive humans.
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