Prime Minister’s Adviser on Political Affairs Naeemul Haque Monday took a jibe at the ‘armchair observers’ commenting on the government’s deal with the rioters that saw an end to the three-day violent protests, saying the ‘exercise to eliminate evil has just begun’.
“Armchair observers rushing to immature judgements on how the government has ‘failed’,” the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader tweeted. “Unaware of the facts these drawing room pundits rush to judgement even as the exercise to eliminate evil has just begun. Calm down folks. Wait and see,” he added. Criminal proceedings were initiated by the government over the weekend, as police registered cases and arrested those involved in damaging property and harassing citizens during countrywide demonstrations following a Supreme Court verdict acquitting Asia Bibi – a Christian woman who had been on death row for eight years in a blasphemy case.
Published in Daily Times, November 6th 2018.
