Pakistan has not been able to treat its liberal community well. While Zia and the ensuing decade of nineties could hardly produce a liberal ethos, in Musharraf many saw a champion of the liberal cause. And if truth be told the Pakistani liberal community defies any attempt to define it. The Western liberals were organising million marches against impending invasion of Iraq, in those days the forum didn’t want to have anything to do with it. The disassociation was not merely from the activities of the Western liberals.

Source: The Express Tribune January 19, 2019 04:52 UTC