Opposition protest show

The opposition political parties put up a very poor power show of protest what they called the “Black Day” because they perceived that last year general elections were rigged, ignoring the reports of holding the polls in a free and transparent manner by the Commonwealth Observers team and national watchdogs including PILDAT and FAFEEN which closely and extensively monitored the polling process in the nook and corner of the country. The high turnout of voters on the polling day, particularly of youth, is another glaring proof that repudiates the opposition claim.

The JUI (F) leadership had vowed to demonstrate their political muscles with a million march in the provincial metropolis of Peshawar. But to their utter dismay, they could hardly garner less than five thousand people with the support of ANP, PML-N and QaumiWattan Party for a public meeting near motorway interchange although the gathering was addressed by the heavyweights like MaulanaFazluRehman, AsfandiyarWali, AhsanIqbal and AftabSherpao.

The Lahore protest public meeting, addressed by PML-N president Shabaz Sharif, was also not impressive despite the fact that party grabbed majority National and Provincial Assembly seats from the city and cantonment areas in the last year general elections, and the party leadership considers it as bastion of their support. The Quetta show which was arranged by PkMAP Supremo Mahmood Khan Acakzai for PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz was thinly attended. The Public meeting at Karachi which was addressed by PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari could also attract less than expected crowd despite the use of provincial government machinery. However, the provincial governments in Punjab and Khyber Puktunkhwa should have not overreacted by erecting roadblocks which created hardship for the people who wanted to carry out their routine activities, and should have left the opposition street power show exposed.

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