Just saw a disturbing, dispiriting scene while on my walk. One minute these men, most of them at least 60 years old, are marching peacefully past Zainab market as curious shoppers look on. The next minute they are met with dozens of riot police and a ferocious water cannon >
attack as they reach Fawwara Chowk, drenching them, sweeping them off their feet and sending people scurrying for cover. Pretty unprovoked and vicious tactics deployed against poor Port Qasim workers who have been peacefully demanding their rights and staging a sit-in at the >
Karachi Press Club for the last 75 days. If only our state found the nerve to move as ruthlessly and efficiently against those resorting to violence, threats and hate speech as they do against harmless, peaceful protesters
