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India-Pakistan
PTI's perplexing protest
2014-05-10
[DAWN] POLITICAL protests, rallies and movements are the democratic rights of the people and their representatives and, especially given the paucity of democracy in this country's history, ought never to be impeded or blocked, so long as the programme stays within the parameters of the law. Yet, while it is well within the PTI's right to launch some kind of new movement -- or is it just a daylong protest? -- on May 11, there are many questions that Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
's latest foray into protest politics has left unanswered so far. What, for example, is the point, if any, to May 11? That the leader of a party which won a significant number of votes in the last election and now runs the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
 government is willing to plunge into protest mode without it being entirely apparent to the non-partisan observer why and to what end is slightly worrying from a democratic perspective. At the very least, it is puzzling.
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