With Nawaz Sharif thrown out, we should now embark upon expunging of hypocritical laws
RAWALPINDI: Our laws, including our fundamental charter or ‘constitution’, teem with self-defeating, if not outright hypocritical, provisions. Our Constitution provides a long list of Islamic rights. But it makes them un-enforceable through courts. Our qanoon-e-shahadat enumerates qualifications of a witness in Tazkiya-tul-shahood. But it then allows acceptance of any mundane witness not fulfilling the criteria in stricto sensu. Some laws like pure-food laws provide for ‘fine and imprisonment’. The courts scuttle this provision by sentencing offenders to paltry fine with ‘imprisonment until rising of the court’. The less said about the old wine in new bottle, riba, the better.
With Nawaz Sharif thrown out, we should now embark upon expunging of hypocritical laws.
Amjed Jaaved
Published in The Express Tribune, October 9th, 2017.
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