Interpretation of the Bara Kahu nightmare

The recent episode of the protest eventually turning into a riot in Bara Kahu, Islamabad is a very familiar sight in Pakistans recent history. But the fact that the protest did turn into widespread protests took way the gloss and focus off the key issue.
It was the first such incident in a long time where the general public came out in the open in protest of rising inflation of all the economic issues. Previously, such protests have normally been patronized by a political group or a representative body of the most affected stakeholder, which gives the Bara Kahu incident an altogether unique angle.
What differentiates this incident from others of such nature is that no other protest was driven by a price hike. People previously took to the streets because scarcity of commodities resulting in stampedes or riots, or other issues of religious or political nature.
The obvious signal that this protest sends to the government that poor people have had enough and cannot tolerate the out-of-proportion surge in prices of goods and services anymore. One obvious consequence of a public protest in Pakistan is that almost every other time it leads to violence and damage to the public and private property, besides other problems.
The belief that issues can now be settled outside the parliament, on the roads has gained considerable strength in Pakistan after the success of the lawyers movement. Moreover, the recent and not-so-recent anti-inflation protests in Argentina, Malaysia and India have yielded fruitful results for the public.
A number of economic experts also seem to believe in the notion that when the general public comes out on the roads over inflation, it either has an immediate impact or is a beginning of something bigger. Whether or not, the public in Pakistan in general and the Bara Kahu protestors in specific used the very research as the driving factor is indeed a secondary question.
What is of primary importance is the need to gauge the root cause for a public discontent in the capital. All arrows point towards - unemployment. Obviously, inflation bugs the poverty stricken unemployed people more than the ones who earn their breads.
Whether inflation in Pakistan is the cause or the effect of unemployment is still debatable. But for sure, Pakistan faces cost-push inflation and not a demand-pull one, which triggers the unemployment as the dried demand leads to a production slowdown. It doesn ask much from the unemployed to employ peaceful or violent methods of protests, as they have nothing to lose and everything to play for.
What is even more worrisome is that this incident may not be a one-off event as the prevailing situation has enough fuel to invite the ire of the unemployed.