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We are ready to throw out American boot lickers and take back Pakistan and Afghanistan too we will also take Bahrain if need be
Nonsense. Exteme Hyperbole, what was decided was in the larger interest of Pakistan. Imran Khan has no base he can launch anything he wants. Nobody is going to follow.
If people are so angry they should start preparing for the next election and defeat the people in office through the ballot. There is no need to mess up the economy any further with this civilian disobedience.
These protests calling for removal of the current government are useless. IK is not going to win any where close to enough seats to form a government - the PPP and PML-N will be back, and probably switch spots, which leaves us where we are right now, yet again.So all along since 2008 IK waited for Davis case and then called for a change? Why didnt he launch a protest since the first day Zardari took office? No, little background noise does not count.
Asim, just to be clear, Imran Khan is calling for Kiyani to take unconstitutional actions right here in the article you posted:
While addressing the protest rally launched against release of Killer American, Raymond Davis in Islamabad on Friday, he expressed that how long COAS General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani would stand aside and observe innocent Pakistanis dying; urging that General Kayani must stand up because it was duty of Pakistan army to provide security to the lives of all the Pakistanis.
Gen. Kiyani can only be held responsible if he acted against the elected government's orders - whether those orders related to a 'popular' policy or 'unpopular' policy - that is how representative government is supposed to work. The military is not running the country now, the PPP and PML-N are, and so long as the Army is acting on their directions, the Army cannot be blamed - they are acting constitutionally.
dnt drag army in ur every rant.. its the govt.. f...k ghadaris.
For Some time now, i have had my suspicion's about what ails Pakistan. The Davis affair and the latest outburst against your own armed forces just says that the population is dead tired now. Tired of making sense of whats going on around it. And in the end, you are ending up pointing your fingers all over the place.
Your list of Demands, nowhere mentions any action from the populace. Did you ask your brethren to show that extra religious tolerance? ... Did you tell them to stop corruption by refusing to give bribes?. Or to join the public service and change whats rotten?
The New Dawn your country seeks, is possible with self actions of your people. Neither me or anyone else can tell you whats best for Pakistan. We may gloat and laugh at your misery. But to attain that moon, it needs to be the sweat of your citizens, not just talks.
what the heck will you launch a civil disobedience movement against ? This will mess up the already fragile situation in Pakistan, Imran Khan is really doing this to further his own political career.
Does anyone see the irony here? A Civil Disobedience Movement is the brainchild of Gandhi - a figure much reviled in Pakistan.
Actually that is in reference to not attacking and shooting the drones down. He was mocking the comic statement of "intolerable" drone attack. All of a sudden now they are intolerable when the Americans showed you the finger right after they got their man? Perhaps Kiyani was shocked that he got a whipping from America after disobeying the master.
When Pakistanis kicked out Musharraf and demanded, and elected, the PPP and PML-N governments, they shifted responsibility to the elected government. Now if the elected government is not governing the way Pakistanis want, the response should be to resort to peaceful protest to make the government change its policies, or kick all PPP and PML-N politicians out of office in the next elections. I fail to see how Gen. Kiyani can be held responsible in the current setup, since he is acting in support of the elected government's policies.It would be a lot more respectful if Kiyani owns up like Musharraf did that he was threatened to get an whooping and he had to get in line with the Americans. Don't make excuses. Or if he did any deal like even if he got a few more F-16s, then he needs to come forward with that.
The ISI is not a LEA or prosecution agency - it has no jurisdiction laying down any charges. It could be asked to support a case through use of its resources, but the responsibility for registering a case and prosecuting it lies with the Federal and Provincial governments - they did not need ISI support for that. The PPP and PML-N simply had no interests in losing all of the US aid and economic support Pakistan receives.If the ISI wanted it could've raised the issue of the espionage charge, instead ISI came out with the a statement "We don't know who Raymond Davis is".
Please go and start your own forum then with those absurd rules.for all those who are currently not living in pakistan, have no right to talk about pakistan or her issues !! it is a matter that only concerns those living here...
These protests calling for removal of the current government are useless. IK is not going to win any where close to enough seats to form a government - the PPP and PML-N will be back, and probably switch spots, which leaves us where we are right now, yet again.
If there must be 'mass protests to remove the current politicians' then they need to also call for a different system of government, probably Presidential, which would at least allow the politically active middle class to vote for a single individual they feel is the right choice, and not worry about their vote not counting because of the parliamentary system of government.