Premature end of Lawyer's
Long March
Frankly speaking and not sanctifying someone, the nation had staked a lot with
the lawyer’s movement, and it whole heartedly supported it. Especially the
attitude of the Pendiites reminds us of the sit in (dharna) of Qazi Hussain
Ahmad of 1996.
But we were astonished at the morning of Saturday, June 15, when the top story
of the newspapers and news websites was that the lawyers ended their Long March
and Itizaz Ahsan left the parade ground.
A lot many questions begin to rise in our mind about all this. We have attached
so many hopes to this Long March, and we were sure that its culmination will be
nothing else than the restoration of the judges. It is reported that some of the
lawyers had brought ration for weeks. It means they were sincere to their noble
cause.
When he refused to contest the by elections from Rawalpindi, Itizaz Ahsan has
occupied the top most position in the heart of the entire nation. But at the
pre-mature end of the Long March this liars- stricken nation also fears lest it
will be left in the lurch and the lawyers’ movement will meet a sad end. He can
once again restore his position by resigning from the party of Zardari who is
violating the mandate of Feb.18 elections.
Keeping in view the track one years’ record of the lawyers movement, when baton
charging, tear gases and even suicidal attacks could not detract them from their
chosen path—independence of judiciary and restoration of the deposed judges—the
argument of confrontation seems to us naïve and an absurd one.
I think Itizaz Ahsan too could not bear the pressure of the washed man of NRO
plus the agents of modern day pharaoh. Otherwise civil society, political
activists and sincere lawyers in the leadership of Ali Ahmad Kurd had burnt all
their boats.
Fortune comes once in life. If captured, it will befriend you for ever. And if
mishandled, like in the lawyers’ Long March, it will never come to you again.
You call this only the first phase of your movement but you cannot bring 50,
0000 people to Islamabad again.
In such like circumstances, those who are working for others, who are not
sincere to their cause, hit the nail on the head. And the friends of the washed
man of NRO did it.
I think our lawyers not only wasted the resources of the civil society but also
beguiled the political parties who had staked all their resources at their
disposal. Had the political parties (APDM) started movement on their own perhaps
they could do better especially Qazi Hussain Ahmad having the experience of 1996
sit in (dharna) by bringing some fifty thousands people in Islamabad.
Having the government of Punjab as shackles in his feet, Nawaz Sherif will keep
continue meeting with the washed man of NRO, Zardari and nothing will come out
of these meetings. When these lines are being written, another of their meetings
have ended in nothing in the farm house of the man in Raiwind who was weeping
before the nation during his election campaigns to support him for the
restoration of Iftikhar Chudry and his co-judges.
Now the only ray of hope lies there with APDM, if they showed some solidarity
with the nation’s desire, otherwise all is clear to this unfortunate nation.