Khalil Ahmad of the Alternate Solutions Institute in Pakistan writes about “The Long March – The Aftermath” (referring to the‚ country-wide protest to demand the reinstatement of senior judges, removed in November when President Musharraf declared emergency rule) in a piece published in The Pakistan Observer (6/28/08).
The lawyers, civil society activists and all of us should feel proud that Long March marked a great moral victory. That hundreds of thousands people from every walk of life converged to tell the parliament what they want. Of course, it is for the legislators, especially for the leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party, if they are civilized enough, to see and realize why these people took to Islamabad. Were they there to demand subsidies, or Benazir Cards? Asif Ali Zardari must realize that these people were not demanding any material gains, they were protesting for their moral demands.
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