If we have to start trying people for treason then let us first start with all the uniformed coup-makers and helpers.
LAHORE: Without reference to the Memogate affair, what I fail to understand are all these shrill and raucous calls accusing the memo writers of ‘treason’. Since when did an attempt by a democratically elected (though much-despised) civilian set-up to defang ambitious and politically interfering generals become an act of ‘treason’?
As far as revealing our national secrets to the US is concerned, as history and more recently WikiLeaks inform us, everyone from presidents, army chiefs, prime ministers to senior bureaucrats has happily been providing confidential information to the Americans (while at the same time the boys of Aabpara have been orchestrating a very successful ‘Hate-US’ campaign).
If we have to start trying people for treason then let us follow our supreme law, which is the Constitution, and first start with all the uniformed coup-makers and their helpers.
Asif Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, November 22nd, 2011.
