SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Leader of the Opposition in Senate Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan Saturday conjectured that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek were pursuing a multi-pronged protest strategy to knock the government down but so far none of their first four plans have borne any fruit, Samaa reported.
Plan -A
According to Aitzaz, Plan-A was to mobilize a million people to Islamabad’s Aabpara Chowk, but it failed miserably as both Imran Khan and Dr Tahirul Qadri ill-planned and ill-organized their respective marches.
Plan-B
Under Plan B, both the parties had to march towards D-Chowk to mount pressure on the government.
“They sat there for 10-12 days but could not even budge the government”, said Ahsan.
Plan-C
Plan-C was to storm Prime Minister and Parliament Houses. One of its sub-plans was to deny entry and exit to the lawmakers into the legislature building, but was thwarted after the joint session of the Parliament got underway.
Plan-D
Plan-D also flopped after Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar’s fence-mending with Aitzaz Ahsan defused a possible dustup between Pakistan People’s Party and ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. Had this wrangle worsened the protesting parties, which are demanding ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, would have drawn a good deal of strength as well as support from it.
Plan-E?
“Now let’s see what would their Plan-E be like? I guess it would be as nonstarter as the older ones”, Ahsan surmised.
Ahsan weighed in that Imran Khan and Dr Qadri’s strategies to have the the National Assembly dismissed were riddled with loopholes.
“It will set a very very dangerous precedent. Taking a cue from it, anyone will rally a few thousand people to Islamabad and dissolve the parliament if it doesn’t legislate according to their choice or withdraw troops from North Waziristan on their demand”, Ahsan explained.
He was of the view that a peaceful protest would have worked better, adding the leaders of the protesting parties should have reached Islamabad after building a substantial public opinion.
“They set out impulsively without doing homework to muster enough nationwide support. That was a mistake”, said Ahsan.
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