MMA leaders showing solidarity and their underarms before commencing train march from Rawalpindi to Lahore.
Dispelling the impression that country’s religious leadership was prone to sectarianism, the leaders of Muthidda Majlis-e-Amal, the leading alliance of the religious parties in Pakistan, launched their election campaign with a successful show of strength from Rawalpindi to Lahore by conducting a train march in defiance of all the restrictions and use of force against them by the military regime.
Ummm... A "train march"? That means they got on a train and went for a ride? What's so hot about that?
The first phase of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal's train march that began from Rawalpindi at midday on Wednesday on the onset of their election campaign successfully concluded at the Lahore Railway Station in the evening. The MMA leaders stormed the Rawalpindi railway station breaking all the barricades setup by the police to prevent their march.
Yeah. The first phase of my successful car march yesterday began from my place of gainful employment on the onset of my evening free time and concluded at Stately Rantburg Manor on the banks of Lovely Stoney Creek. I stormed the barricades my employer erected to prevent my departure, locking them behind me, since I was the last one out of the building.
Though the administration forced the train to leave ten minutes before time, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani, Maulana Fazalur Rehman, Maulana Sami ul Haq and Allama Sajid Naqvi and Liaquat Baloch managed to board the train along with hundreds of their supporters chanting anti-government slogans.
Qazi, Sami, Fazl and even Noorani, all in one place, all on one train. How tragic it would have been if something had... happened. Ah, well. Maybe next time.