In the not-too-distant past Maulana Khadim Hussain and his followers had completely paralysed Islamabad by staging a sit-in in Faizabad as a result of which a lot of inconvenience was faced by the locals who commuted daily between Islamabad and its various suburban areas for earning livelihood. The then administration and police looked at the protestors like silent spectators. The hooligans among the said protestors had broken the CCTV cameras of the police installed on a number of roads. Nobody knows and neither has anybody informed the taxpayers whether or not the government recovered fine or compensation of the broken CCTV cameras from those who had ransacked them.
The common man is apprehensive that Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his henchmen might step into the shoes of Khadim Hussain and lock down the federal capital sometimes next month as declared by him. Reportedly he plans to bring to Islamabad thousand of students studying in the seminaries run by his political party for the purpose. Should he succeed in doing so, a grave law and order situation is going to be created in the federal capital, besides, putting the local commuters to a great inconvenience.
Would the government come down with a heavy hand on the protestors or would it follow the same lame duck approach which the former government had adopted with the camp followers of maulvi Khadim Hussain, only time is going to tell. The Maulana has nothing to lose. If he succeeds in his mission his stature as a political leader would increase many times. If he is arrested even then he would try to pose himself as a political martyr. Other political parties would like the government beaten by his stick but no political party in its heart of hearts likes the Maulana to succeed because in that case he would be qualified to lead entire opposition parties in the country—-a prospect which neither Zardari nor Nawaz Sharif would approve of.
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