Pakistanis...Zindabad!!

We should be truly proud of the courage and professionalism that our people have shown the past several months.

The Chief Justice and the lawyers have led the way by risking their lives, losing their jobs and freedom in the line of duty - protecting the Constitution and the rights of the ordinary person before the brute and lawless force of a dictator!!

The journalists have been right there with them, with many of them losing their lives, others getting beaten and arrested by police - again in the line of duty. Which in their case is to serve as the eyes and ears of the nation!!

Inspired by these, even our corrupt politicians for once seem to have understood that there is something more important than becoming the government in power - it is doing their duty to support the the judiciary and freedom of speech and free and fair elections in the country. Because if we dont have these in a nation, we are reduced to being slaves.

And, perhaps most heartening of all have been the Pakistani students, led by the best and brightest. They have come out in protest - and done their duty as the future of Pakistan by doing so in a dignified way without burning buses or destroying national or private property!! Some have even taped their mouths shut, and in doing so spoken louder than a dictator ever could through the microphone. Others have sung the national anthem as police has, with faces showing their shame at what they are doing, arresting them in the name of the dictator.

I have never been so proud of our big hearted and courgeous people as today.