No political government is ready to face Lal Masjid kind of criticism again whatever the cost may be to the public.
TORONTO: To a great extent the media is responsible for this situation as well. Whenever the state did try to take action, it had to face extremely harsh criticism from large sections of the media. Take the case of Lal Masjid. When action was taken there, the media, by and large, became a champion of the “innocent students” and General Musharraf was painted as a demon and a killer. No political government is ready to face that kind of criticism again whatever the cost may be to the public.
Interestingly, this particular incident in Rawalpindi has hardly been reported in the Urdu media.
Irteza Siddique
Published in The Express Tribune, October 13th, 2011.
