Only those who want to kill off Pakistani democracy in its infancy talk of a clash of institutions, said former law minister Senator Babar Awan on Thursday, while talking to reporters in Karachi.
Standing on the steps of the Supreme Court Registry in the country’s commercial capital, just a stone’s throw away from Karachi’s financial district, Babar Awan said that Article 6 of the constitution stood like a the Great Wall of China between any future dictator and the sanctity of Pakistani democracy.
Senator Awan, who was the government’s counsel in the suo motu proceedings on the violence in Karachi over the summer, seemed to suggest that the government was confident of winning the next general election in 2013, stating that in five years, democracy would grow strong and in another five, grow even stronger.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 16th, 2011.
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