Selective justice is no different from injustice.
DHAHRAN, SAUDI ARABIA: In response to a question from the Supreme Court, the attorney general has said that the issue of treason against former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf will be taken from November 2007 when he declared emergency. The government was asked why not also include the 1999 action when an elected government was overthrown and it replied that it would not, since this action was indemnified by the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution.
In my view, this is not a correct position because the Seventeenth Amendment was superseded by the Eighteenth Amendment, and the latter made abrogation of the Constitution an act of treason. The PPP as well as the ruling PML-N, in opposition then, passed the Eighteenth Amendment.
The point here is not to defend Pervez Musharraf, who did in fact abrogate the Constitution and was an usurper but that justice should be done with the same yardstick. Selective justice is no different from injustice.
Shaukat Ali
Published in The Express Tribune, July 1st, 2013.
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