The deep state in Pakistan never had any sense of proportion, so I guess it’s absurd to expect any from it now when it’s feeling cornered. But it’s an amazing move to accuse peaceful civil rights activists of sedition weeks after one of their own has been actually indicted for it
It shouldn’t need to be said but clearly it needs to be said over and over again - demanding your legitimate and constitutional rights as a citizen of the state is not sedition. Trampling on the rights of ordinary citizens over and over again is sedition.
Overthrowing elected governments over and over again, manipulating the legal system to legitimize your illegal coups, calling the constitution a piece of paper to be thrown into the dustbin is sedition.
Targeting those who demand their right not to be killed, displaced, oppressed for abduction, torture, imprisonment, death is sedition. Creating proxies to create havoc and divisiveness and violence in the name of religion is sedition.
Responding to every legitimate demand from citizens with an iron fist, hiring trolls to muddy the waters of public discourse, playing power politics and swallowing up natural resources while the people of the country suffer under the chokehold of poverty & oppression is sedition
I wish we still had people like Faraz, Faiz & Jalib in our midst. But we’re a land that has suffered so long that resistance seems to be built into our very bones. Justice will prevail. Dil na-ummeed to nahiN nakaam hi to hai, Lambi hai gham ki shaam magar shaam hi to hai
Release them all, you cowards
