The Pakistani army generals have signed their own death warrants by Justice Katju

The fiery virulent, and intemperate harangue of Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif, the DGISPR and spokesman of the Pakistan army in a press conference on 5th December 2025, makes it clear that even the small of amount of freedom left in Pakistan will now be stamped out and crushed by armed force.

Little do the Pakistan army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir ( who was obviously behind this speech ) and the boneheaded generals of Pakistan realize that democracy and freedom are safety valves, ultimately protecting them as well. By suppressing freedom, they have signed the death warrant not only for themselves but also for their families. The generals and other Pakistani officers may feel safe presently with their security guards, but surely their wives will have to leave their homes sometimes (for shopping, social visits, etc.), and their children will have to go to school, college, or work. These will at some time definitely become targets by the oppressed people of Pakistan using hit-and-run guerilla tactics.

It is understandable that presently most Pakistanis are despondent, terrified, cowed down, and pessimistic. Many are afraid to speak out against the current atrocities and horrors, lest they too be picked up and incarcerated by the security forces. Many believe that this state of affairs will continue indefinitely and have lost all hope for any change. But as the oft quoted adage says ” Whenever there is oppression, there is resistance ”. In the course of time the Pakistani people, who are presently enslaved by the Pakistan army, are bound to come out of their despondency, pick up weapons, and use them against their vampire army which has looted Pakistan and sucked the blood of its people.

For instance, what else could the Americans do when the British Parliament passed the ‘Intolerable Acts’ in 1774 except raise a Continental Army under George Washington and fight the British with guns for their freedom from British rule ? They surely could not have confronted the British with bouquets or lollipops.

As the great Urdu poet Akbar Allahabadi said:

“Khabar deti hai tehreek-e-hawa tabdeel-e-mausam ki
 Khilenge aur hi gul, zamzame bulbul ke kam honge.”

Some people argue that the army has the guns, so how can the people fight back ? They forget that in guerrilla warfare, people often fight with the weapons of the enemy, snatching them from the latter.

Many rulers in the past had armies, yet they were overthrown by the people. For instance, King Louis XVI of France had an army armed with guns, yet he was overthrown by the people and guillotined in 1793. Czar Nicholas II of Russia also had an armed army, yet he was overthrown in 1917 and later shot by the Bolsheviks.

An army can fight another army, but it cannot fight the masses. A tiger can kill its prey, but it cannot kill a swarm of mosquitoes. The Pakistan Army has about 650,000 active-duty soldiers (plus 550,000 reservists), totalling approximately 1.2 million. In contrast, the population of Pakistan is about 240 million.

Some people oppose violence, which is inevitable in guerrilla warfare. I, too, am not a bloodthirsty person. However, sometimes violence is unavoidable by the people.

The generals are presently filled with glee at scoring a victory over their own people. But they forget the words of the great Indian freedom fighter, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, during British rule in India.

In 1908, Indian revolutionaries launched bomb attacks on British officials in Bengal, resulting in several British casualties. Tilak, critical of the moderate approach to the independence struggle, wrote in his newspaper Kesari: “Violence, however deplorable, becomes inevitable when rulers turn the nation into a prison, oppress the people, and commit horrendous atrocities against them. Then, the sound of the bomb spontaneously emerges as a warning to authorities that the people have reached the limit of their tolerance for oppression.”

The people’s bombs are soon coming in Pakistan, in a guerrilla war against the Pakistan Army, as in Vietnam and Afghanistan. 

It is true that many people are killed in guerrilla warfare, but that is the price people must pay to achieve freedom.