Change wanted

Published August 30, 2014

FOR the first time in Pakistan’s history, the people have stood against the establishment. The country’s sorry state of affairs, the corruption, insecurity, nepotism, anarchy and no rule of law call for a change.

If the PTI demands are unconstitutional and illegal, then so was the 1997 storming of the Supreme Court by PML-N supporters in the then Nawaz Sharif government?

The rigging of elections and the Model Town killings led to this situation and even two months after the Lahore killings, the culprits have not been brought to task.

Let history not write that no one tried to change Pakistan. There has to be a change for Pakistan’s survival. Let justice be done otherwise history will never forgive us.

S. Babar

Karachi

Published in Dawn, August 30th, 2014

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