While a lot has been discussed, commented, opined and concluded on Dr. Zulfiquar Mirza saga, there is a need to tell what public feels about it. Before discussing the above, few things about the political outfit which received Mirza’s scathing statements, need to be agreed.
This outfit has in the past and recent times, innumerably, been branded a fascist party which controls and derives its strength through striking fear in the hearts and minds of its people. It is an outfit that has and continues to strive and thrive on breeding terror, fear and hatred amongst people. Needless to mention some events such as torture and killing of an army captain, murder of an ex-governor Sindh, running militant wings within the outfit, May 12, 2007, April 9, 2008, and very recently the violence in Karachi which was a reaction to Mirza’s remarks at the dinner hosted by one of the members of Sindh Assembly. Most of us believe that the followers/supporters of this outfit live their lives like its hostages and are very afraid of admitting, openly, its innate firebrandedness.
Without commenting on the motives of Mirza saga, we must have the courage to admit that whatever Mirza has said about this outfit only proves the above sentiments of people towards this outfit and he is the first person to have exposed this outfit in public that too with evidence which he is willing to give to the courts if asked.
I have considerable respect for a person who has done things in the interest of his nation, especially when they are done by someone who has put all his super privileges and importantly his existence at stake. Moreover, if that person is from a party which is not even committed to unearth the murder of their own party leader.
Apolitical people of this country have hailed Mirza’s courage, which by the passage of time, be emulated by many others.
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