A huge new mall in Karachi, Pakistan, called Dream Bazar, offering goods at low, discount prices was looted and vandalised on the very day of its opening by an uncontrollable mob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyesIo-LYd4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfBLaZ4meM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxOEhLcq0M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTw8eYKDZic
Various explanations and causes for this rampage are being given, including one which says that the owner of the mall, a Pakistani businessman living abroad, did not give enough percentage to President Asif Zardari, who became angry and ordered the looting.
My own hunch is this : the people of Pakistan have for quite some time been driven to the wall by skyrocketing prices of essential commodities like food, fuel, medicines, and exorbitant electricity bills, apart from the rampant and growing unemployment. They have now become like the Paris mob before the French Revolution of 1789 which shouted ” bread, bread, bread ”, but Queen Marie Antoinette told them to eat cake instead, while Minister Foulon told them to eat grass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Foullon_de_Dou%C3%A9
https://www.facebook.com/justicekatju/posts/1086180924755786/
One may recall the scene in Charles Dickens’ novel ” A Tale of Two Cities ” when a cask of wine broke down, and people stooped down to the street floor to drink the wine spilled on the street. At that time, one man dipped his finger into some of the red wine, and wrote on a wall ”Blood”, indicating the blood of tyrants and oppressors of the people, which will be shed in the coming Revolution ( as indeed it did on the guillotine after 1789 ).
The Pakistani army, the real rulers of Pakistan, has unleashed a fascist reign of terror in Pakistan, following the events of 9th May, 2023 ( which many say were stage managed by the army hand in glove with Nawaz Sharif ), and tortured and imprisoned over 14,000 people, including women and children, for over an year on flimsy charges, in inhuman conditions.
The generals are full of glee at scoring a victory over their own people. But they forget the words of the great Indian freedom fighter, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, during British rule in India. In 1908, Indian revolutionaries launched bomb attacks on British officials in Bengal, resulting in several British casualties.
Tilak, critical of the moderate approach to the independence struggle, wrote in his newspaper ‘Kesari’: “Violence, however deplorable, becomes inevitable when rulers turn the nation into a prison, oppress the people, and commit horrendous atrocities on them. Then, the sound of the bomb spontaneously emerges as a warning to authorities that the people have reached the limit of their tolerance to oppression.”
The people’s bombs are soon coming in Pakistan, in a guerilla war against the Pakistan army, as in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and as has already started in Balochistan, where over 100 Pakistani soldiers have been reportedly killed recently.
https://indicanews.com/justice-markandey-katju-pakistani-army-vs-pakistani-people/
