Pakistan and Future

Before talking about the criticism on the decision of not doing sit-in for the demands , I would first like to discuss the categories of critics. Broadly there are three types of critics against AA.
1. These are the people belonging to the camp of mad dictator, their objective is to down play the success of long march as well as malign Aitzaz Ahsan. A good example of these people is ahmed quraishi and Imtiaz Alam like journalists. They not only try to down play the number of people in long march but also try to malign AA and other lawyer leaders.

2. The second category is of the people who have utmost hatred against PPP and they are suspecious of AA’s motive in the long march and judiciary struggle. It is very difficult for them to trust AA while he keeps his association with the people’s party. A good example of such critics is Irfan Siddiqi , his today’s article in Nawaiwaqt sums up his suspicion against AA. Let me do some translation:

Before that he (AA) failed to do the proper planning for this movement. Many people think that he should have convinced the lawyers to take part in elections 2008 with whole-hearted effort. If Lawyers, APDM and PML-N had taken part in elections with mutual cooperation , there would have been different balance of power in the parliament. A section also thinks that asking CJ Iftikhar to take part in procession was not an appropriate strategy. Also taking CJ to meet Asif Zardari was inappropriate, Similarly his taking part in Pindi’s election was criticised too. There is also a question mark on his affiliation with PPP (which is the biggest stumbling block in judges restoration) while leading the struggle for judiciary

3. Third category is of those people who are know-all (aql-e-kul) in Pakistan, they know everything and can tell you who made mistake and when. They will always be able to point out how bad a leadership is and what they (leaders) should have done. Their argument will be on the lines why Aitzaz built up the momentum for sit-in , why did they not tell earlier, why he choosed month of June, why he lacked planning , why he did the long march when there was no money and so on and so on.

Although I planned to try writing something in defence of AA’s decision of not doing sit-in , however I feel that the categorization of the critics in itself is a fair defence of how his decision was correct. I personally do not care about the first two types of critics as it is their right and duty to do such criticism , I am more interested in the third type of critics (I sometimes think I might be one of them) .