Good luck with the struggle. Would be great if a Pakistani could visit our blog and give some insight on the struggle!

PS. Was sorry to hear that one of our all time favourite cricketers had to go into hiding, Imran Khan!!

old. I still remember Bhutto’s unlawful hanging. I remember Zia’s

corrupt and bigoted martial law and I also remember the nascent and at

times the corrupt democracies which followed. But what I see happening

today in Pakistan is not only unwarranted but also unparalleled in our

history.

Our Judiciary is under siege, they are effectively arrested as if they

are nothing more than common criminals. Imagine majority of the Supreme

Court is being held hostage in any civilized country. How shameful. With

them a majority of the High Court Judges of Pakistan are also being held

hostage by the present regime.

And then the usurpers who call themselves the government of Pakistan

have the galls to talk about that they are doing all this for the

betterment of the country. They speak to us as if they are speaking to

their slaves. They talk down to us.

How long, how long are we going to suffer this ignominy? When will we

stand up and be counted?

All these years I have been disillusioned by the dream called Pakistan.

A ray of hope arose when the lawyer’s community and the Higher Judiciary

rose to the occasion.

A hope that yes maybe I too might have some recourse against the people

who sit in the corridors of power and who are not used to any one

questioning their authority and wrong doings.

A hope, that I too can enjoy basic freedoms and human rights.

But for now it seems like it was just an amazing dream that has just

ended too quickly. The ray of hope was quashed by those who are nothing

more than Usurpers of this nation’s rights and hopes. And darkness

prevails again. The fight between good and evil has moved into its

second phase.

The judges have done their duty, the lawyers and ex judges have done

their duty, the media has done its duty, and now the bugle blows for us

the citizens of Pakistan wherever we are to do our duty.

My fellow Pakistanis there is no better time to be counted than now, let

your voices be heard, let the people who are assaulting us in the cover

of darkness know that we will not take it lying down any more.

Let the usurpers and their cohorts know that Pakistan was not created

for them but for us the common man, so that we could enjoy life, liberty

and the pursuit of happiness.

I ask my fellow Pakistanis to register their protest peacefully and for

those who are in Pakistan to lay wreaths on the gates of the judiciary

that has been murdered by the evil usurper, and do it in large numbers.

So that by leaving behind these wreaths we can let these usurpers know

that yes we are peaceful but we are aware and we will not let them take

away our rights without a fight.

I suggest we lay these wreaths outside all the courts in Pakistan. And

mourn the death of our brave judiciary. And then when we have done this

in the thousands, then we should rejoice and welcome the new judiciary

which has arisen out of these ashes the brave judiciary who lies

captured in the hands of these usurpers, and rise to free them from

these shackles.

For those who are not in Pakistan I suggest, we register our protest by

writing to the editors of the various influential newspapers and writing

or calling our elected representatives wherever we are and letting them

know that they need to now stand up with the moderates and the democracy

loving people of Pakistan and only then is there any salvation against

the extremists that they are trying so hard to defeat. Or otherwise what

stares them in their faces is a civil war in Pakistan. And that is not

good. For you don’t want another Iraq or Iran in the face of Pakistan.

It is time to be counted. Time to let our voices be heard. Stop all that

you are doing. Your country needs nothing more than for you to be on the

streets, and on the phones or with your emails to let you voices be

heard among all mankind that we will not take this lying down.

Can all of us start a campaign by tying a black ribbon on our right arm in protest to the illegal acts committed whether at work or outside? Do we Pakistanis have that level of courage to start with?