It’s not the court verdict that has insulted the ballot but the wrongdoings of her father
RAWALPINDI: The judiciary is one of the three pillars that constitute a state along with the executive and the legislature. The three operate in coherence to collectively erect the institution of state. Internal tiffs among any two weakens the state as a whole.
Throughout the military rule in Pakistan and whenever judiciary has been suspended from its work, political parties of the opposition have raised their voice against this act, chanting of the power and the discretion judiciary holds. During the Proclamation of Emergency imposed in 2007 by then president and chief of army staff Pervez Musharraf, almost all the parties, including the now ruling PML-N, protested against the suspension of the judiciary.
Yet time has completely reversed the situation, the daughter of the ousted prime minister, Maryam Nawaz, while leading her mother’s campaign for the by-election in the constituency previously held by her father, is asking people to negate the Supreme Court’s verdict. The point she seems to have missed is the reason of her father’s ouster, which was not to disqualify a PML-N head but the one found guilty of not remaining faithful and honest in his conduct.
Before asking the voters to ‘avenge the insult to ballot’, the former PM’s daughter needs to know that it’s not the court verdict that has insulted the ballot but the wrongdoings of her father as the prime minister of the country.
Umair Mustafa
Published in The Express Tribune, September 2nd, 2017.
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