Hate speech is not free speech
Urging people to kill soldiers is not free speech
Abusing other ethnic groups and open is not free speech
If there’s evidence of hate speech or incitement to commit violence and terror. Then please do the government and prosecution a favour and join the prosecution, help them submit evidence and make a case. Because as of yet, not even a basic report was produced before the court.
I disagree with your characterisation of PTM here. They are at their core tribals from FATA who have legitimate gripes with the way things are, their demands are both fairly reasonable and understandable. They’ve been extensively smeared as anti-state, Indian/Afghan/CIA/misc foreign agents. And no doubt some of them are seditious, and maybe even some have developed ties with foreign agencies, but that’s not cause to dismiss them all and to dismiss the support they have among some of the public in tribal areas. We made these dangerous mistake in East Pakistan.
Furthermore, I’m weary of accepting establishment smears of calling people seditious.
You might not agree with some of this but that’s because our school curriculums refuse to teach genuine history, we’re indoctrinated rather than educated in public life too.
There was a time where opposition parties nominated madar e millat as a presidential candidate, challenging then dictator Ayub Khan in a presidential election (1964 or 65, I believe). She was smeared as anti-state, an Indian agent, Ayub pulled the leavers of the state to ban her publications, extensively rig the elections despite overwhelming support for her, issue fatwa declaring women as a head of stage is against our religion etc. She published a book on quaid’s life, ‘My brother’, it was banned by our establishment. Only 20 years after her death it was finally allowed.
Bhutto was hanged in a kangaroo court etc.
But then we live in a weak state like Pakistan where people would get away with such crimes and with people like you defending those crimes
I disagree, our state isn’t weak. It’s very powerful, competent? No, but powerful...
Our civilian leadership is both weak and incompetent. But the establishment exercises too much control. PTM actually exists as a direct result of this imbalance of power, in a normal functioning democracy, the conditions that created PTM might not have so easily persisted. Apologies if I’m speaking in a cryptic way, I’m conforming to our own standards of political correctness here.
So you agree with GOC 7 Div saying that drone attacks are killing terrorits, but when Mohsin Dawar says it, it's a lie?
It was a simple question. Since you tried to differentiate between the two perspectives.
Simple question but the answer isn’t palatable. You can’t square some circles no matter how much people try.