Consequences are a part of due process and the course of law.
LAHORE: This is with reference to the article ‘Land of no consequences’ by Ayesha Ijaz Khan (September 2). I wholeheartedly agree with the writer. Consequences are a part of due process and the course of law. Nobody should take the law into their own hands, but when people see the law being manipulated or monopolised there remains no recourse but to commit further illegal acts (or to display an exorbitant and unnatural measure of patience). Only faith and belief in justice and rule of law can initiate what you are talking about; consequences and their importance. Unless and until consequences are certain, there will be no legitimacy in Pakistan, whether individual or institutional.
Shemrez Nauman Afzal
Published in The Express Tribune, September 3rd, 2010.
