Army should have never been allowed to come in politics or dissolving assemblies since 1960s, Ayub's era. I am against martial law. Its the public's fault that some of them cheered when Ayub came to power, same happened in Zia and Musharraf's tenure, why did the public support them ?
Because no one cares who comes in power as long as the new person gives you a better country than the previous one.
People cheered for Ayub and Zia and Musharraf because the current 'democratic' leaders of the time were simply too busy in their own petty politics, as they are now.
Even if today, martial law is declared but it means that the people get to be in a better condition than they are now, they would welcome it with open arms.
The thing that has changed now though is that the poeple have waken up to the way political dealings are done between the estab and politicians. Previously, it was mostly reported in a 4th page column of some obscure newspaper a month later, or in a book 10 years later. Now, it is being discussed in every drawing room, every khokha, every corner. Sure, some of it is fluff and hyperbole, but some of it is not.
And on another note, I have seen you drawing a whole lot of false equivalences in this thread, so just on that note:
1- When PTI came into power, no elected government was removed from office by such manner. No lotas were given money to switch allegiances, radically different parties weren't told to be allies with each other.
2- The court and the ECP of that time was not pressurized to keep a CM at power come what may. The ECP was not in contempt of court and in violation of law. The CM was not a CM even though no law in the country allows him to be. Can you imagine that, no law at all of this country makes room for Hamza Shehbaz to be CM, but he still is. How?
3- You cannot deny the grassroot support PTI had at the time. I do not know if you were in Pakistan or not, but PTI was definitely a strong presence at the time, anyone saying otherwise is simply denying the facts.
4- Am I saying PTI had NO support during the 2018 elections? Not at all. It did. Am I saying that PTI had no support during the 3 years in power? Nope. But you surely cannot create an equivalence between that time and now.
Take it this way, you are making a car. You have done most of the work, the chassis, the engine, the body work etc, but at the end I come in and just fit in the doors and a bit of upholstery.
On the other hand, you had to make a car, but I make the whole thing from A to Z...are the two cases equivalent?
Certain top estab officials weren't giving guarantees to anyone in the PTI that their cases will be quashed and they will be set free in 2018, and certainly weren't plotting to remove an elected government of the time.
One more thing, if the army was so behind PTI, why did SMQ lose his PA seat? And itna hi tha, to fauj phir zyada majority dilwa deti na PTI ko, kyun nhn kia woh?