Today was a big Jalsa in Minto Park Lahore where Dr Tahir Al-Qadri spoke the crowd. It was an impressive show as per number of people concerned. I would says they were around 100,000 or so people in the Minto Park grounds.
The good thing about the Jalsa was that its was organised by a group called Minhaj Al-Quran which is Braylvi in ideology organisation. so it was refreshing to see the Braylvies coming into main stream politics. Braylvies was once the largest religious group in Pakistan but now its a dying creed and is mainly replaced by the a more orthodox, organised and regressive ideology ie Deoband of Pakistan. so it was refreshing to see the braylvies back into political spectrum. They are mostly non violent adherent of sufi islam. Previously this was not an organised religion but with Minhaj Al-Quran and Sunni Tehrik its also becoming an organised religion with element of violence in it. One example of that being Mumtaz Qadri , the killer of Salman Taseer Governor of Punjab. Other good thing about this Jalsa was that the crowd was representing Pakistanis from most social classes. There were Drs, Engineers, teachers and civil servants and shop keepers and so on so forth. There was also women in the Jalsa which is also a progressive step. Some thing which u rarely see the Jalsas of DeP/JUIF.
Now if we discuss whats was wrong in the Jalsa to be honest there were many things wrong with this Jalsa. Inspite of putting a very impressive show Dr Tahir Al-Qadri completely failed to make any sense and the impact of Jalsa was very short lived and only with in few hours it started getting fissile out. To start with; its catch up line was wrong. In simple words it was rubbish. 'siyasat nahein Riyasat bachaoo' they got it wrong and then they have to turn back and explain every one that in this ' siyasat' doest mean 'real siyasat' it means 'currunt siyasat'. Even in Jalsa Dr Tahir Al-Qadri spend so much time explaining all this rubbish was utterly wrong and was not needed in first place.
Their main thrust in the idea that 'politicians are corrupt' is nothing new for the people of Pakistan. every new dictator in Pakistan came in power in this pretext that politicans are corrupt and he is here to clean them out. Then they rule for 10s of years and end up in more disaster. Then they leave with an election and same corrupt PPP comes in power. This experience has been tried thrice in Pakistan and produced same disastrous results.
Dr Tahir Al-Qadri failed to adress the main issue of todays Pakistan ie terrorism and its solution. He said few things in not so clear terms which can be interpreted in either way. I was really surprised that he didn't mentioned a word Taliban even once. probably he didn't had a courage to stand in front of the Taliban , probably because his audience was different this time thats why he was speaking different than his usual overseas speeches. He didn't mentioned anything about minorities and their victimisation in Pakistan
Dr Tahir Al-Qadri also played a wrong card that stakeholders [new name of the old establishment] need to fix the electoral system in line with a dictatorial claus in the constitution [ie article 62/63] only then a 'true democracy' can flourish in this country. This is also as rubbish as is his catch up line 'siyasat nahein Riyasat bachaoo'. I dont think and dont buy this idea that declearing majority of Pakistani population being unfit to contest the elections ,based on article 62/63, will bring a 'true democracy' in Pakistan.
So in short i think it was an useless exercise which will only harm democracy and by virtue of this will be only counterproductive to the state of pakistan. So it will only destroy both Siyasat and Riyasat.
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