Question mark on JUI-F dharna

Like other democracies in the world, the right to protest is enshrined in Pakistan’s constitution, but dharna politics has created problems for the citizenry. Participants of JUI-F dharna in Islamabad have occupied Metro bus stations, which causes inconvenience to the general public. There is also fear that Afghan national and arguably elements of banned TTP have joined the dharna, which is a cause of concern for the people in general. Islamabad, like other major cities of the country, is in grip of pollution, and the most problematic in the I-9 and I-10 industrial areas are the steel mills and marble factories. This causes pulmonary problems among residents of the area in specific and the entire city in general. To add to the misery of the residents of Islamabad, the city has been the centre of attention in terms of protests against government.
The new trend of protesting through sit-ins is making life all the more unbearable. The current Azadi March and dharna of JUI-F has led to countless traffic jams, noise pollution, and littering. The March participants eat, sleep, and defecate in the area that is not meant for the purpose. Heaps of garbage and defecation in open spaces have resulted in unsanitary conditions and would expose the area to the risk of various diseases, which is a disaster for the twin cities, already struggling to cope with the defiant menace of dengue fever. The administration of the city along with the federal government must take emergency measures to clean up the site of the Azadi March during and after it. The government should approach the courts for abuse of freedom of expression, as the speakers insinuate the military establishment for having helped PTI in the 2018 elections.
According to Article 19 of the Constitution freedom of expression is not absolute. In addition to provisions in the Constitution, there are certain sacrosanct limits that have to be exercised in the civil polities; and universally accepted norms and standards have to be adhered to in all conditions. But all those niceties are thrown out of the window by a few writers and analysts. They in fact take a particular pride in an uninhibited expression, holding it up boastfully as a manifest of their independent mind. In this pursuit, they in their first pretentious device pick up military and intelligence agencies for vituperative and onslaught, considering them as a fair game for expression of their unbounded freedom. In fact, freedom of expression is one of the most abused freedoms in Pakistan where commentariat have been flouting the provisions of the Constitution. The nation watched some TV talk shows in which participants unleashed avalanche of blistering censure against military and intelligence agencies of Pakistan.
Nowhere in the world are the military and intelligence outfits maligned and discussed in a manner in which some people do it in Pakistan. It is not done even in the countries where Martial Law was imposed more than once. During the stint of army chief Raheel sharif, majors and colonels who command the units on the ground had invited attention of the COAS Raheel Sharif at Ghanz base towards the insults heaped on the military. It was in this backdrop that Raheel Sharif had declared that military would resolutely preserve its own dignity and its institutional pride. Some politicos and analysts had criticized that statement. The question is, if our politicians vow they would safeguard democracy; if our lawmakers could swear they would defend parliament’s supremacy at any rate; if the judges could proclaim not to allow judiciary’s independence to be compromised in any circumstances, what was wrong with the army chief’s vow that military would resolutely preserve its own dignity and institutional pride?