Why is the state scaring me?

Arshad Sulahri
3 min readOct 5, 2020

Arshad Sulahri

I received a call from the official number of Islamabad on September 24, 2020, at 2 o’clock and it was said that a petition has been filed against you in the FIA ​​Cyber ​​Crime Wing. According to the complainant, his articles and activities on social media are against the state. The office was asked to clean up otherwise unilateral action will be taken. As soon as I heard the call, blood sugar and blood pressure levels rose due to fear and anxiety. I wanted to hide the matter from the family but my wife had heard it.

As soon as she entered the room, she started crying saying what have you done. I said nothing is serious and everything is fine. I barely calmed down her and sent her back to his room so that the daughters would not know.

Young journalists Sabuh Syed, Ali Warsi, Hanifa Abbasi, Maryam Khan from the USA, Atif Tauqeer from Germany, and later Matiullah Jan, Raza Rumi, Murtaza Solangi, Jibran Nasir, Haris Khaliq, Col. (R) were informed. ) reward Rehman Advocate, Sajid Tanoli Advocate, Zafar Minhas, Raja Sajid, close friend Raja Ijaz, friends of social media have fully supported that we are with you, there is no need to panic.

It so happened that on the morning of October 1, a notice came from FI Cyber ​​Crime but for appearance 30 September 2020 date is mentioned. The shadows of fear began to hover again. The horror movie of diabetes, disability, homelessness, children, wife’s illness, and disability began to play out what would happen. I am a citizen of a state that is frightening me instead of protecting me. I have a Pakistani identity card, passport, I pay taxes. What is the state paying me? As a citizen of the state, I have no rights. Provide basic living facilities, which is a constitutional and legal right Is.

Suppose an anti-state is written (which is not written even not a single letter in articles published on newspapers and digital media platforms and in any post posted on social media can prove that the state) Isn’t it the duty of the state to quell the resentment of its citizens? The state is like a mother. It is the duty of the state to provide basic human needs to every citizen. When the state neglects its duties, citizens are deprived of justice, employment, health, and education, then the state becomes meaningless for them. Patriotism is created by force and loyalty to the state cannot be maintained. The state can only tell the citizens about their duties after fulfilling their duties. The state should give the rights of the citizens given in the constitution and then question them. Can fulfill its constitutional duty otherwise, it will not be called the state mafia which is occupying the state. The state does not mean only the ruling class Let there be a monopoly and let the rest of the citizens be subjugated to them. The pledge is for modern democracy, human rights, equality, and personal freedoms. They reject all forms of slavery and subjugation and no expediency can be exercised on it. The Constitution of Pakistan gives every citizen the right to express his or her views. Demands basic human rights. Obliged to abide by the constitution and international charters and give all kinds of rights to its citizens. It is a basic human right to ask the state why I am being intimidated.

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Arshad Sulahri

Writer,Journalist,Editor ,Human Rights Activist ,Politician