There never has been even one sincere government that worked to create a great nation
KOTLI: Pakistan was created by a constitutional battle waged by men like the Quaid-e-Azam, Allama Iqbal, Fazalul Haq, etc. Yet, for almost four decades, Pakistan was ruled by men with little legitimacy as they ruled as dictators. This country has either seen military rule or rule by a jungle law. There never has been even one sincere government that worked to create a great nation. We have allowed religious extremists and sectarian warlords to create pockets of power in the name of security or strategy, not realising that such malice will breed bigger demons, which will threaten our state. In such an environment, a bigger, well-equipped group, calling itself the TTP emerged, taking control over large areas of what constitutes the territory of Pakistan. Yet the tragedy is that those who have been entrusted public offices of importance lack the intellectual capacity and foresight to re-evaluate their follies and consequences of their myopic vision.
If the Constitution of Pakistan and its laws are not supreme and their interpretation by the superior judiciary is challenged regularly, then the future of this nation as a sovereign, independent country is liable to be jeopardised. We have seen the mighty Soviet Union collapse, crumble and disintegrate, despite its massive military power, and yet we fail to learn any lessons. Our faith teaches us that those countries cannot exist where justice and equality are not adopted as state policy, yet we fail to reform. What is our judiciary doing? Who will justify the acts of the judiciary?
Ali Husnain Naqvi
Published in The Express Tribune, December 24th, 2014.
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