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On Tuesday, the constabulary arrested the erstwhile ISKCON clergyman and spokesperson of Bangladesh Sanatan Jagaran Mancha, Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, connected sedition charges and the tribunal denied him bail. (PTI Photo)
Nov 30, 2024 18:14 IST First published on: Nov 30, 2024 astatine 18:00 IST
Unrest successful Bangladesh
A drawstring of incidents successful Bangladesh this week person led to unrest crossed the country. This week began with clashes among students of antithetic universities and attacks connected 2 acquisition institutions and a hospital. Demonstrations by rickshaw drivers besides resulted successful the closure of the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway. Then, connected Tuesday, the constabulary arrested the erstwhile ISKCON clergyman and spokesperson of Bangladesh Sanatan Jagaran Mancha, Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, connected sedition charges and the tribunal denied him bail. As a result, his supporters protested extracurricular the tribunal and clashed with the police, starring to the decease of the adjunct nationalist authoritative Saiful Islam successful Chattogram.
Deputy exertion of Prothom Alo A K M Zakaria says, “All acrophobic sides are successful statement that it is the toppled autocratic authorities and their collaborators who are down these incidents.” He calls for the authorities to “take work for what occurred astatine the tribunal premises” but besides expresses “relief” that “the unit and clashes… could beryllium curbed.” Commending the swift response, Zakaria recognises that “immediately aft the incident, the leaders of the wide uprising were active, utilizing societal media to telephone for peace, bid and communal harmony.”
The Daily Star (November 29) seems to hold with Zakaria, successful part, saying, “Though these incidents whitethorn look isolated, they signifier portion of a broader signifier of instability pursuing August 5.” Foregrounding the information of “incendiary narratives connected societal media”, the editorial points retired that “these integer battlegrounds are making conflicts much apt and resolutions much elusive.”
PTI-government tussle
The Islamabad police’s mentation successful anticipation of the PTI’s “do oregon die” protestation pushed the protestors backmost by 2 days. Initially scheduled to participate the metropolis connected November 24, the protestors yet managed to find their mode successful connected the greeting of November 26. Things looked promising that time until the Bushra Bibi-led supporters were forced to retreat Wednesday greeting connected relationship of clashes with the constabulary and different subject forces.
Dawn (November 28) slams some the PTI enactment and the Shehbaz Sharif authorities for their response: “Political immaturity has outgo the PTI dearly erstwhile again… [the demoralised cadres’] disgruntlement is the terms that the enactment indispensable wage for failing to negociate expectations.” On the different hand, “the authorities would beryllium omniscient not to gloat. Nor should it contemplate extending its run of unit against the PTI and its leaders.”
Express Tribune (November 28) takes a graver presumption of the concern saying, “The result underlines that authorities has failed.” Condemning the government’s “brute usage of force”, the editorial says, “With PTI workers seen abiding by the limits of the Red Zone, a crackdown was unacceptable. The authorities should person waited for them to turn bushed and fatigued successful the chills of Islamabad.”
Underlining what some Dawn and Express Tribune besides believe, The Nation (November 28) says that “the way guardant lies successful dialogue, not discord… Compromise, conciliation, and a willingness to wantonness entrenched hardline positions are the lone ways to execute bid and stability.”
Alarming gender-based violence
Last Sunday, the Home-Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) held a league connected women’s absorption against oppression astatine the Karachi Press Club (KPC). Nasir Mansoor, General Secretary of the National Trade Union Federation Pakistan, revealed alarming figures of gender-based unit saying, “85 per cent of women workers successful Pakistan acquisition workplace harassment. The fig touches 90 per cent for home help” (Daily Times, November 27). This Monday, November 25, besides marked the opening of the yearly 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
From online harassment to the compounded battle connected women from number communities and disturbed areas, “women successful Pakistan bash not lone conflict misogynistic attitudes but besides combat for democracy, children’s rights, equality, societal and judicial justness and amended societal conditions” (Daily Times, November 27). The editorial urges the authorities to “go beyond articulator service” and says, “What tin alteration the script are economical opportunities for women, adjacent wage and a harassment-free workplace. These are not privileges but rights.”
Citing much disturbingly debased figures of condemnation rates for GBV crimes, News International (November 30) points to the request for interventions successful the ineligible system: “If the authorities is genuinely superior astir eradicating GBV, it volition person to present overmuch amended outcomes. And determination is besides a precocious accidental that this occupation volition lone go much acute for Pakistan and countries crossed the satellite arsenic we determination forward… The imperative to summation some the ineligible protections against and resources disposable to tackle GBV has ne'er been higher.”
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