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There is obviously a double standard of police and traders of The Mall Road Lahore when dealing with protesters. Some nurse who were protesting for increase in their wages were pelted with rotten eggs:....Nurses were also pelted with rotten eggs while they were rallying for low income. The protesting nurses blamed that traders of mall road, led by Naeem Mir of PML-N, threw rotten eggs at them to disperse them. They have demanded the authorities to investigate and responsible be brought to book. (source: Nurses continue protest, pelted with rotten eggs in Lahore)While in the lawyers' rally same traders showered flower petals and offered garlands to the participants:The traders, who had a few days ago pelted the nurses demonstrating for a revised salary package with rotten eggs for blocking The Mall, welcomed the lawyers rally at Regal Chowk, showered flower petals on the participants and garlanded them. (source: Petals replace rotten eggs | Metropolitan | DAWN.COM)Question is who gave authority to traders to throw rotten eggs on nurses ? Is it because the traders perhaps felt free to target the protesting, unarmed and all-female nurses who had dared to come out in the street without their male chaperons?
iamamuslim (12-02-2011), moazzamniaz (12-02-2011)