"After December 16, I'll wager that the police will completely change course. They will offer their hands in peace to the legal community, greeting lawyers with hugs, not tear gas. The government will invite all the nation's judges over for tea and everyone will laugh and smile about how silly they had been in the past. Everyone will be friends again and the police will apologize for terrorizing civil society. Uh, no. That won't happen. The difference between pre-emergency, emergency rule, and post-emergency Pakistan will be nominal. You'll still have the army in power, you'll still have a dependent judiciary, lawyers will still be causing trouble and paying for it and you'll still have buffoons running the opposition..."
Read her article in The News here.
Read her article in The News here.
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