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| India-Pakistan |
| Protest turns violent |
| 2014-12-09 |
| [DAWN] THE disturbing violence in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... on Monday marks a change in the PTI's profile. Despite the events of Aug 30 and Sept 1, the party had, generally speaking, not shown a predilection for the politics of violence. But now, the rioting and confrontation in the industrial city should entail some serious thinking on the part of the PTI, while the PML-N needs to do much better than play victim to an unreasonable opponent's desperate assaults. It has been observed frequently that the ruling party must shun any strategy that brings it face to face with the protesters on the street. That advice was not heeded on Monday, resulting in at least one fatality as supporters of the two parties clashed. |
| Posted by:Fred |