Re: Pro-CJ lawyers launch witchunt against dissenters
It is only right that the battle to save Pakistan’s soul is being waged by lawyers — thousands and thousands of them protesting the destruction of its judicial system by its self-appointed general president. It is right because a lawyer created Pakistan, almost single-handedly, and because the army’s role has always been to destroy the country. First, it marched out of the barracks under the command of Ayub Khan to destroy democracy; it is still destroying it, under Musharraf’s command. Its claim always has been and still is that Pakistan is safe only under army command — the same army that lost half of the country when it faced its enemies.
What army rule has gained for Pakistan can be seen from a comparison with India, which never had its democracy “saved” by the army. It is, by universal consensus, moving into the big league while every American passing through Islamabad is still kicking us around.
India is strong because it has, ever since its birth, preserved its constitutional institutions while we sat by and did nothing when ours were destroyed.
Musharraf has no mandate from the people of Pakistan to dismiss even a civilian chaprasi, leave alone the country’s chief justice. We should not stand by now as if it does not concern us. We must be out on the road, before the Parliament building, the Supreme Court and all other places speaking up. Musharraf was appointed to guard the nation’s doors — not to occupy the master bedroom.