Why Model Town massacre is important now? Because that massacre, they way it was done, and the way endless attempts have been done, using levers inside executive, judiciary and the media to cover it up to stop facts from emerging has practically finished the moral authority of PMLN govt and the political system stitched around it. From a government of all people that rules with trust, they & their allies have reduced themselves to a political group wearing the mask of a government. Now they threaten to browbeat their real opposition by endless references to Constitution, law, 11 parties inside Parliament and the responsibilities of the Armed Forces. But the dynamics of real politics cannot be fudged by fake matras - What they want is that Armed Forces should use their moral authority and fire power to restore their controlling position on the system so that they can fix up their real opposition. Its only common sense to ask: Why should they? Look at the insane propaganda being repeated by political & economic interest mafia wearing the mask of a govt that there are just few thousand people sitting in Islamabad and how could we accept mob demands. Two days ago, the political & economic interests that call themselves govt tried throwing them out by finding an excuse; dozens died, hundreds were injured including policemen and yet crowds have not only stayed but have multiplied. Why? because apart from spin & lying there is another phenomenon that has escaped these apologists. This is an age of TV and internet and countless millions across a large country stand behind these protesters; they are not on roads now, but an extremely charged polarized feeling is there. If situation in Islamabad is not diffused politically, if PMLN & allies continue to deal with this as a mob, as a sect, as miscreants to be dealt as an administrative matter or even manage to kill a few hundred and throw them out this violence will spread across the country, if not in three days then in three weeks. Armed Forces cannot and should not try to erode their moral authority to restore physical authority of a regime that is unable to restore its moral authority through a political process of bargaining.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:26:21 +0000
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