A society that produces lawyers like these needs to ask itself some hard questions, or else face a very bleak future.
DUBAI: Congratulations to the Lahore Bar Association. Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned. Pakistan is in crisis, its economy beggared, its institutions teetering, its political system gripped by corruption and its armed forces fighting a murderous enemy that beheads its soldiers on their own territory.
And the Lahore Bar Association’s response — to ban a soft drink (re: a story in your newspaper of February 10, titled “Barred: lawyers ban drink on court complex”).
Such display of ignorance and hatred makes one wonder where Pakistan is headed. But perhaps one expects too much — after all, Pakistan is the place where lawyers throw rose petals at the feet of murderers and hurl bricks at policemen. Those who voted in favour of this ignorant and divisive resolution are unsuited to the profession of law with its emphasis on justice, equality and fairness. A society that produces lawyers like these needs to ask itself some hard questions, or else face a very bleak future.
Khalid Ahmad Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, February 15th, 2012.
