In all our years, no person has been punished for the wrongs they have inflicted on the country.
KARACHI: While disqualifying 11 parliamentarians, the Supreme Court has deliberately and specifically spelt out the constitutional adjectives “sagacious, righteous, honest and ameen”. The Court has also directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to institute legal proceedings against our one-man authority on everything, Mr Rehman Malik, and the others. The Chief Election Commissioner‘s (CEC) office has made appropriate responses. However, given our history, this is where the nation may be made to wait, for ‘all to be revealed at the appropriate time’. The considerable efforts of our chief prosecutor, the attorney general, to teach Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim the basics of law and the Constitution may well ensure that.
This is the tragedy of Pakistan. At any consequential level, in all our years, no person has been punished for the wrongs they have inflicted on the country. The result is the geometrically progressive, self-destructive disaster that permeates through every aspect of the country’s fabric daily.
A man was once asked if he prayed for the leaders of his country. He replied: “No, I have seen our leaders and because of them, I now pray for the people.” While fervently doing that, I also hope that this time around the Supreme Court through the CEC will be able to enforce these momentous and critical decrees.
Dr Mervyn Hosein
Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2012.
