Prudence demands that the law be flexible to dissipate any tension between the judiciary and the executive.
LAHORE: This is with reference to Ejaz Haider’s article in of March 11 titled “Lose sovereignty, lose the state”.
Prudence demands that the law be flexible to dissipate any tension between the judiciary and the executive.
I agree with the writer when he says that in order to safeguard public interest and for the state to survive, jurists may have to consider laws outside the boundary of the norm. If a state’s sovereignty is intact, then the state survives; otherwise, it ceases to exist.
Having said that, we should not bury our heads in the sand and should understand that Pakistan is in danger of becoming a state that has no control over its sovereignty.
For instance, what is the role of the state when right-wing religious parities and clerics pass fatwas declaring people ‘wajibul qatal’? Why is the government not prosecuting such people? What sovereignty are we talking of when we cannot take on the extremists inside the country?
Salma Tahir
Published in The Express Tribune, March 12th, 2011.
