Re: Our founding fathers were progressive!
Well we’ve had one every now and then, just not officially agreed upon I think until 1973. Then ofcourse it has had all the amendments. So yeah Pakistan has been a constitutionally unconsitutional state perhaps … Sheesh listen to me.
The way I see things in Pakistan, the constitution doesn’t mean squat. People there first have learn to live by the rules they choose to write before any constitution can be effective. The amendments in the constitution have mostly been to fit the desires or personality of the one in power. The amendments done to the constitution in Nawaz sharifs tenure are a classic example of this, when the president was stripped of most powers. So our constitution is rarely used to enforce the law or rules in the country but used to bend it so that those in power don’t get trampled by it.
But anyway, the thread is why we don’t make progress even though some of our past and present leaders have had visions of grandeur.
I agree. We are basically a lawless society and it is mostly because the consitution is there but nobody to enforce it. No system of check and balances. We have to learn to be civil before we can talk about progression.
