If people have a right to hold mass rallies to demand fresh elections and this is not blackmail or duress, why mobilisation of public opinion in favour of the enforcement of the Shariah becomes an act of duress. The mass movement of 1977 spelled the fall of Bhutto in Pakistan in the same manner as the mass move- ment of 1978-79 led to the fall of the Shah in Iran. The mass movement of the American people forced the U.S.
