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“Police in Pakistan acts in a more high-handed manner because it allows even plainclothesmen to get into the act of terrorising people…and later putting the blame on ‘unknown civilians’ for the brutalities committed.

In such an atmosphere where law-abiding citizens cannot protest, the seeds of terrorism are sown. Terrorists are indirectly backed by helpless citizens who are caught between th devil and the deep sea.”

This that you wrote above is especially helpful to understand how people take it and take it til they can’t take it anymore. The SAME thing happens in Mexico, Guatemala, NO ONE is ever responsible for murders, kidnappings, beatings, rapes. Every now and then, they hang a poor peasant, saying he/she was the guilty one, when in fact everyone knows that is false.

I am more strongly aware than ever that to have a democracy worthy of the title, there has to be a rule of law that is reliably followed, rather than a law of the person in power at the moment. The shaking of this ‘rule of law’ is also what is sending tremors through many in the US about the US.

In our part of the world the police is overworked, underpaid and ill-trained. Dictators and politicians do not care much about police reforms because when in power they inevitably misuse these men and women in uniform for their own purposes.

Even if the civilians return to power, you would still see the same faces doing the same thing to the ordinary protesting people.

This happens often in India, Paksitan, Bangladesh…and in Asia and Africa.

The present police is a legacy of the foreign colonial masters and continues as such — obeying the new masters who have also learned that by terrorising ordinary people they can stamp out any protest.

Police in Pakistan acts in a more high-handed manner because it allows even plainclothesmen to get into the act of terrorising people…and later putting the blame on ‘unknown civilians’ for the brutalities committed.

In such an atmosphere where law-abiding citizens cannot protest, the seeds of terrorism are sown. Terrorists are indirectly backed by helpless citizens who are caught between th devil and the deep sea.

As they are arrested and led out, the crowd hurls insults and surrounds them in a threatening manner. I understand that this occasionally does break into violence so your speculation that the policeman is actually protecting the lawyer may be accurate.

The point is not everyone in Pakistan is unhappy with Musharraf. Anyone being arrested would be open to such treatment.