The Long March or The Short March?
The reality of the Long March:
According to an anlysis by Ambar Khairi on BBC Urdu, the Long March is a fraud with the people of Pakistan who are being fooled by the greedy media (e.g. Geo, ARY, Aaj, Express News), opportunist politicians (e.g. Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Imran Khan), shameless retired Generals (e.g. Hameed Gul, Aslam Beg), and confused lawyers cum politicians (e.g. Aitzaz Ahsan).
Also read the following column (Daily News):
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
By Jamal Khurshid
Karachi
The road-weary Karachi caravan arrived in Sukkur well past 1 a.m. to a rousing reception and was soon joined by a caravan from Balochistan, led by Ali Ahmed Kurd. The total number of people at Sukkur, after the buoyant amalgamation of the two caravans, rose approximately 5,000 (maybe even 6,000 people). Around 2,000 of these were lawyers. The remaining were political, NGO and civil society activists….