Re: Hisba Bill
It shuldnt sound very strange. Since I have not been supporting or defending any particular point in Hisba Bill. ( Read all the threads n u will know it ). I have been supporting Hisba Bill as a LAW. I have been saying if a law is passed in my province ( a domestic law, not a national one - I hope u understand the difference ), others shuldnt worry abt it.
- Others should worry about it - we're all one nation. What happens in one area has repercussions on other areas. You have a talibanized style government there, and people will flee - they'll run to Lahore - they'll run to Islamabad - they'll run to Karachi. This will upset economic dynamics. Karachi is a great example of that. Because of people running to Karachi, that city has expanded so fast and it just has not been able to deal with the population expansion. It never expected it. Same goes for afghani refugee camps on the border, and the afghani population coming into Pakistan running away from the Taliban. It totally upset our economy, and brought in heavy drug trade and the kalashnikov culture. Not to mention that we have refugees and we don't even have the ability to support them - they're living like animals, poor things.
There is a law in physics, and it so applies to everything else. For every action, you have a reaction. Newton's third Law. There is another law - logical law - the cause-effect law. If you have one cause, then you will have at least one effect. So every event is a potential cause, so there are potential effects. Good and bad. We need to guard against the bad, but I wont get into those details, since you have not read the darn bill.
I have been supporting FREEDOM. ( freedom to make laws - freedom of choosing our lifestyle).
But if the law were unIslamic, you would be opposed to it? If there was a national law that was unIslamic, then you would be opposed to it? If there was an unIslamic law somewhere else in Pakistan - like you can't grow beards in karachi - you'd be against it? I'm sure.
You can support freedom, but that doesn't mean you should blindly support every bill that is passed, especially when other Pakistani institutions are saying it is unsound. Then you are saying that its okay if an elected body brings havoc to their own province. This should not be tolerated at all.
Provincial governments still have ties with the national government and in that respect - each provincial government will be concerned about policies being established in other provinces, since there is the potential that those policies will affect them. This is common sense. Its like if Punjab decides to pass legislation about water running thru Punjab rivers, etc. That water goes into Indus, which goes thru Sindh as well, so Sindh will be concerned about Punjabi legislations on water-issues, naturally. Same with this bill. It has potential wide-range effects.
But you haven't read this Bill, so you wouldn't know it.
If the supreme court doesnt find it contrary to the constitution, then there is no reason why shuld others feel insecure because of OUR domestic laws.
Are you aware that the national government and all the intellects sitting there are saying this is directly contradictory to the constitution? Are you aware that the Supreme Court is reviewing the Bill on the allegation that its unconstitutional? I bet SC will approve it as unconstitutional, and it will not be permitted! I hope so.
Since other provincial assemblies are making their domestic laws too. We have never tried to INTERFERE. its something INTERNAL. It doesnt have anything to do wid our foreign policy or defence or currency or anything NATIONAL.
Every provincial gov't has been aware of legislation/policies of other provinces. You'd be stupid if you didn't keep your eye on your neighbors.
YES! Pakistan is ONE COUNTRY. But we have DIFFERENT people forming this ONE NATION.
So we can have different domestic laws. We shuldnt fear this DIFFERENCE. we shuld rather accept it. The USA has more DIFFERENT PEOPLE than us. more states. more DIFFERENT DOMESTIC LAWS. They dont interfere in each others' laws. Still they are very much united as AMERICANS.
Have your different laws - go right ahead - but those laws should be for local issues that are specific to that province.
Hisbah Bill's statements are setting up a parallel system to what the constitution has set. In effect, its NWFP's own constitution, as if it were an independent nation. Its incompatible with the national constitution. Its incompatible with Islam. Its a piece of crap legislation set up by a political party that has done jack for its province. And they know it.
Elections are coming up - its just an excuse.
As for America - if you know anything about America - you will know that state laws are discussed by people who don't live in those states - by politicians that don't live in those states - by media people who don't live in those states.
And no state ever decided to go against the constitution or to make a parallel police system in the name of religion!
argh.
I can't believe you people don't see how fascist this Hisbah Bill is. Its almost like some Nazi came up with it.