Will it work?
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Will it work this time? All these protests, with all the risk they are taking – will it mean something? Will it be different this time? On one side people are saying that the recent events have changed the face of the top universities of Pakistan - that will not go away easily. The recent events have changed the upper middle class of Pakistan - that will not go away easily either. We hope that is the case, but ... |
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Some feel that the recent resistance is dying down already. Benazir Bhutto was hardly able to draw crowds in Rawalpindi today; instead of thousands of promised supporters only a few hundreds showed up. In a resistance started by lawyers and students there are some (die-hard) leaders really committed to the cause, but the make or break factor is will the innocent bystanders and apolitical people (who are a majority in Pakistan) get motivated enough to join the cause or not. Even if they do these people might care for a little while, get excited in the moment and follow the die-hard leaders, but they stop caring soon and go back to their lives.
None the less we hope that what is happening today is a paradigm shift, a communal memory, and people will remember this time and use it as a precedent for further resistances.
None the less we hope that what is happening today is a paradigm shift, a communal memory, and people will remember this time and use it as a precedent for further resistances.
