Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
The superior judiciary has chosen to give voice to a growing undercurrent among the masses of the profligate and exploitative trends of the elite;** this country has been used by the elite to fill their coffers with ill-gotten wealth and stolen earnings. The masses and their country have been reduced to poverty while the elite have grown richer. The ruling elite borrows money in the name of the masses but end up misappropriating it to their own benefit. The masses get thrown the crumbs and scavenge for a living.** The superior judiciary could not align itself with the elite any longer and had to reflect on what the masses felt right, particularly after the popular surge that cushioned the lawyers’ struggle to restore the chief justice and his dismissed colleagues. The Supreme Court in its judgment on the NRO has been constitutionally correct and morally right — they have also made a popular decision. They cannot be faulted for being on the side of right. The elite reaction, howsoever expected, is misplaced and defiant — and hence morally wrong.
There have emerged four different barometers exhibiting the masses’ response and reaction to how the state and society are being governed. It has been usual till date, and a popular refuge at that, of the inefficient political governments to fall back on popular support in the electoral process and how their elections underwrite their populist credibility. The days of such carte blanche may well be over; a smoke wall cannot be built in the name of electoral justification around intrinsic failures of capability, intellectual capacity, performance, uninhibited corruption.