Desperate measures

WHEN the state fails to listen to people’s grievances, citizens have a right to peacefully take to the streets to ensure that their voices are heard. While street protests and sit-ins should be the option of last resort, sadly in Pakistan they have become the only resort to catch the attention of a callous power elite.

Disaffected populations have once again taken to the streets in the biting cold of Parachinar, as well as in Gwadar, to attract the state’s attention. In the Kurram sit-in...