Comment Open Letter

Abstract

As the state of Pakistan stumbles from one uncertainty to another in the power machination of its ruling elite, I deem it a historical necessity to go to the roots and call upon the farmers, peasants, laborers, workers, artisan, folk singers, shopkeepers, clerks, students, teachers, intellectuals, writer, journalists, political workers, youth, professionals, men and women to forge an alliance and wage a joint struggle, as you are the silent majority that in all national progressive democratic movements have been in the vanguard. Today the nation bacons you again because the twilight struggle of the people of Pakistan for the survival of the state, for an egalitarian society based on freedom and law, federal and parliamentary structures, a tolerant and moderate society against sectarianism and terrorism has entered a critical phase.