What many don't realize is that the battle in Pakistan has always been between constitutionalism and Feudal insticts domination....for want of a better expression .And in this battle the latest resistance of the Pakistani legal community is one that needs global support .the reasons are many one of them is that the guiding force or grund norm is a body of principals developed and shaped by haloed common law traditions .The best features of this norm are the values of democracy , modernity plurism and reason .
Imagine a community which doesn't have direct cash stake in a struggle against a overbearing state ...yet is actively and effectivly involved in it and the current resistance fits this requirment .
the reinstatment of the chief justice and the insecurity of the Musharaff in having prominent figures like Pakistan Bar Council vice-chairman Ali Ahmed ,former judge Tariq Mahmood and Supreme Court Bar Association chief Aitzaz Ahsan detained after delceration of emergency in Pakistan (they were are released on the eve of polling in pakistan )
.the legal fraternity of Pakistan who are the only people with any integrity in the political / public space in Pakistan .
pls write to the Pakistan Supreme Court bar council at Info@pbc.gov.pk in case you want to express your support ..
three cheers to lawyers ..o come on they are not all that bad ...
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Very good thought. Pakistani lawyers must be applauded for their spirit and zeal.
Kudos to the law community.
couldn't agree less!
reminds one of the student movements against the mandal commission report (india, '90) or pro-democracy (china, '89), or even more recently, the monks' movement against the military junta in myanmar..
however, while all the movements mentioned above amounted to more or less nothing and were crushed by the respective ruling parties, things seem different here, though it remains to be seen how the new regime in Pakistan takes matters forward.. the Zardari group is yet to take a clear stand on it, perhaps because of its equally unclear stand on musharraf's role in the new scheme of things..
let's hope!
today's Times of India (delhi) has 2 pieces on the front page
in big print: 4 of the richest 8 people in the world, are Indian - not Arab or British or Sudanese or Japanese or Australian or Spanish or American or Chinese or Swiss or German or Korean or whatever, but INDIAN
in small print: India '08 polio count world's highest
how can WE be part of ANY change?
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