5. Dharna & its Objectives:
• Non violent sit-in process
• Anti Government Protest
• Demand of justice
• State response of criminal cases.
• Payment of a debt.
• Some are against & some are in favour of sit-in. William Faulkner is in
favour of sit-in. He says that “………………………………….”.
• Its obvious that silence gives straight to the authority.
• It is the duty of youth to challenge corruption.
6. Dharna In Pakistan
• 2014 is likely to be remembered as the year of dharna in Pakistan.
• Dharna as a form of protest has been known in Pakistan since 1977.
• Dharna were made to drive the attention of the rulers towards society.
• The New Pakistan dharna better identified as container dharna appeared in 2014.
• It was organized by Imran Khan & Dr.Tahir ul Qadri to Challenge the Government.
• For the one fourth of the year dharna was the top story for the media and the govt.
was largely paralysed.
7. Effect of Dharna on Pakistan’s Economy
• By 31 august, the govt. claimed economic losses directly resulting from
the sit-in were between Rs500 million & Rs800 million.
• On 26 September, an adviser to PM claimed the losses had run up to $6
billion (RS610 Billion).
• According to some source the economic losses exceed to 1000 billion
rupees.
• 1 billion rupees spent on sit-in security.
• It made considerable noise about the dharna being an unconstitutional or
illegal step.
• In fact one does not have a correct estimate of the economic losses to
the state.
8. Effect of Dharna on Pakistan’s Economy
• China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia are giving economic help to Pakistan. It is not
bearable for the enemies of our country and they are orginising such
protests.
• They are aware of that situation that if 2 or 3 lakh people protest on the
road it would ruin the whole economic system of Pakistan.
• People are depress and frustrated over that situation and they have
become hopeless victim. It leads them towards suicide and un
employment.
• The govt. accused the dharna organizer of causing huge losses to the
state especially by creating a situation that prevented the Chinese
President from coming to Pakistan and scared other investors away.
28. Dharna & Economy Of Media
For Print Media, 19m rupees were released for ads about attack on PTV, Parliament & Curse of sit-in.
11m rupees spent on ads in the name of creating ‘Public Awareness’.
59.3m rupees spent on Nov. 29 about the Aug. 29 attack on parliament
428m rupees on Electronic media Advertisement.
Govt. spent about 500-600m rupees on advertisement.
37. Status
•Cancelled due to the 2014 Terrorist attack on APS in
Peshawar.
Agreement reached on 22 March, in which Sharif will
himself dissolve assemblies if systematic rigging is proved
by three-member high-powered inquiry commission.
39. Parties to the Civil Conflict
•Sharif Government Pakistan Tehreek e insaf
Pakistan peoples Party Pakistan Awami Tehreek
Awami Muslim League
Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
Majlis Wahdat e Muslimeen
40. Lead Figures
•Nawaz Sharif PML(N) Imran Khan PTI
Shehbaz Sharif PML(N) Tahir ul Qadri PAT
Support Support
Asif Ali Zardari PPP Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad AML
Mehmood Khan Achakzai PkMAP Ch Shujaat Hussain PML(Q)
Fazl ur Rehman JUI(F) Ch Parvez Elahi PML(Q)
Abdul Malik Baloch NP Raja Nasir Abbas MWM