On a highway to nowhere
Pakistan Peoples Party authority Bilawal Bhutto Zardari waves to his supporters during a celebration convene in Karachi on Sunday Oct 16, 2016. PHOTO: Rashid Ajmeri / EXPRESS
Of one thing we might be certain — no domestic personality is going to be putting one feet in front of a other on a dry highway to embark a ‘Long March’. Long Marches exist for a many partial in name usually (there have been fair exceptions) and a latest politico to enclose a marching boots is Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who has demanded integrated inhabitant confidence in a nation during a Salam Shuhda Rally hold in Karachi final Sunday in decoration of a 2007 militant attack. He done a series of final that enclosed a appointment of a full-time unfamiliar apportion and a doing of assorted resolutions upheld by his father. None of these final has a smallest possibility of entrance to delight as Mr Bhutto is good aware, though though he sought condolence in a bum of feet with a proclamation of a prolonged impetus on Dec 27, 2016. Far adequate in a destiny for people to have mislaid he ever pronounced it if it never happens.
Meanwhile, Islamabad and a supervision of Nawaz Sharif are introspective how they will residence a emanate of another domestic event, not a impetus though a lockdown of a sovereign capital, by another domestic celebration — a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf led by Imran Khan. This is approaching and has a intensity for substantial intrusion and drop depending on how hundreds of thousands of people are to be managed from a confidence perspective.
It is this latter that is of concern. Whilst there contingency be an inalienable right to criticism — it is not a freebie. Rarely mentioned is a genuine cost in tough income of safeguarding domestic freedoms and rights. Policing costs money. Money, some-more tough cash, is mislaid by a businesses that are negatively affected. Who picks adult a bill? Ultimately though indirectly it is a common male that underwrites a insurance of those sportive a right to impetus on a highway to nowhere. Spare a suspicion for a rest of a (non-marching) race as a metaphorical boots are pulled on before treading a highway to nowhere.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 18th, 2016.
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