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'Jail Bharo Tehreek' history in Pakistan

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'Jail Bharo Tehreek' history in Pakistan

 18 February,2023  08:16 pm

LAHORE (Dunya News) – Multiple instances in

Pakistan’s history re@ect that “Jail Bharo Tehreek” was
being launched against the governments to pressurise
them.

In the Mrst instance, political parties coalesced to form

the “Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD)” in
1981 to restore democracy and denounce Zia ul Haq's
martial law. The MRD staged Jail Bharo Tehreek against
the then president Zia ul Haq which saw the
participation of thousands of people including lawyers,
political workers, and others which were arrested later.
The MRD staged the movement for the second time in
1986 with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the
leading role. However, it failed to achieve its objective
but it managed to provide fragile support to democracy.

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In the second instance, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA)

president Qazi Hussain Ahmad threatened the then
government under the premiership of Shaukat Aziz to
announce Jail Bharo Tehreek if the MMA’s protest of
Nov 28, 2004, was interrupted anyway. However, the
MMA could not materialize the threat.

When the alliance of the PPP, the ANP, the JI, and other
parties took to the streets against the emergency
imposed by Parvez Musharraf (now dead), the house
arrest of late Benazir Bhutto, and de-notifying judges,
the police arrested over 100 protestors which the PPP
responded by incepting the Jail Bharo Tehreek.
Moreover, Mve ANP workers presented themselves at
Kot Ghulam Muhammad police station for voluntary
arrest.

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The country heard the voices of Jail Bahro Tehreek for

the fourth time in 2018 when the Tehreek-e-Labbaik
Pakistan (TLP) emir Ashraf Jalali announced the
Tehreek to take off on Jan 27 if its demands for the
resignation of the then Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah,
publicizing Raja Zafar ul Haq’s report, and compensation
for the TLP workers “martyred” in Tehreek-e-Kahtam-e-
Nabuwwat were not met.

Recently, PTI chief Imran Khan announced the Tehreek

to take off on Feb 22, 2023 from Lahore against the
incumbent government’s lacklustre response to its
demand for holding general elections in the country. It
merits mention that Mr Khan had announced the
Tehreek earlier at a PTI rally held on Oct 08, 2022 in
Mianwali too.

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A bird's eye view of the movements in history suggests

that all the movements failed to garner the attention of
the government and have their demands met. Let’s see
how far the movement goes this time. 

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