Lessons not learnt
April 18, 2021
We are not ready to learn lessons from our past mistakes and continue to repeat the same mistakes again and again expecting different results. And each time we get the same result.
What has been happening in the country for the last three days is a clear manifestation of this approach. The TLP is not doing something new or surprising. This has been its pattern of protest. From the November 2017 Faizabad sit-in to the current protests, the TLP used the same tactics time and again. They organised violent protests and sit-ins when the Supreme Court acquitted Aasia Bibi in a blasphemy case. At the time, no arrangement was made to deal with the highly charged crowds in different cities. Finally, action was taken against TLP leaders and activists and that too only after speeches made by TLP leaders and supporters that used harsh and abusive language against the judiciary and the military top brass.