The title of this post is inspired by Ernest Hemmingway’s classic novel ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. However its focus is the story of an old lady and her participance in the now legendary long march of last week. The ninety-year old Aziz Begum chose to stand tall for the cause despite her age, [...]
Other Pakistan’s ‘nara’ or slogan for the long march is simple and catchy, please pass it on so it can be sung today on the ground as we enter Rawalpindi and Islamabad:
Dama-Dum Mast Kalander
Chief Saab Court Ke Andher
- WRITTEN UNDER MARTIAL LAW
The lawyers movement have done it again. They have done us proud yet again with the principled long march to Islamabad to reinstate the real judiciary. No words are enough to praise this movement, indeed this is a new Pakistan movement led by lawyers who as a collective represent the Quaid-e-Azam in this respect.
So I [...]