PAKISTAN PLUNGED IN TO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS.

Khurshidalam44@hotmail.com Dated: 5^th January 2012 London.

Pakistan sunk once again in to deep political and constitutional crisis. All the five pillars of the state have declared their total independence even if it is at the cost of the integrity of the country, just after 4 years of Military Rule. The fifth pillar that is usually ignored, is the opposition in the parliament popularly known as shadow government. The shadow PM has refused to allow his shadow to sit it in the parliament unless he is physically on the treasury benches.

The country as a whole has been so extremely radicalised that there is hardly any institution that can be given a benefit of doubt. The underlying philosophy of the armed forces all over the world is, do or die. But in Pakistan the same philosophy is even pursued by Judiciary. The CJ is just like COAS in the army and the judges are the core commanders. The judiciary is ‘free’ but the Jurists have to obey the command. I am really surprised of such conformity of thoughts and semblance of thinking processes across the board. Even during Zia times there was one dissident note of Justice Safdar Shah in the case of Late Z.A.Bhutto. It reflects the castigation inside the judiciary that is far ahead of military establishment.

It is interesting to note that this very institution was the first to sell its independence just after the proclamation of Pakistan. The Judiciary would have never seen independence, if the black coat movement had failed. There are many political pundits to rob the black coats of its historical achievements. This sort of foul play and distortion of history is a day light norm in Pakistan. It was that movement which shepherded independence not only to judiciary but to politicians as well.

The tug of war was going between the government and Judiciary for quite a while but the crisis were not so stark as the chief of the armed forces was playing a pacifying role. As soon as the judiciary found that the iron is hot and it is the time to bang hard they did it with full vigour.

As I said that judiciary surrendered its independence to civilian rulers after the birth of Pakistan and the politician were responsible to invite the army to share power with them. The reason was their lack of confidence and sense of insecurity. This feeling of insecurity stemmed from the very fact that the imported leadership had no constituencies and hence no sense of accountability. They were on shaky grounds. They conceived in petty handicapped manner, that the country should be ruled by impulses and subjective whims rather by institutions. The present crisis is the culmination what our great leaders did to this country to safe guard their own interests from time to time.

Pakistan relations with US were never turbulence free. They invested in Pakistan for their national interest and the main beneficiary was always the army. It was no secret that US considered the Pak army as the most allied ally of US administration. Internally there was no alternative to challenge this naked interference. Gradually we lost the ground sovereignty of the country to US. US were taken up by surprise to see such violent reaction to the air Sovereignty. It was for the first time in the history of Pakistan that the differences erupted between Pentagon and GHQ in Islamabad. The sequence of events was such that they could not be covered any more. Military leadership did not like to appear before the parliament but could not ignore the pressure of the public and media. The relation between the army and civil government came under strain. The opposition and judiciary joined hands to hit harder in this cleavage.

The fledgling civilian institutions were brought to direct collision. They are sticking to their guns. It appears that unless some hidden hands intervene into the situation, our present leadership can’t diffuse it. It seems that judiciary and Nawaz League is decided to settle their score and is not ready to tolerate the however impotent civilian rule for a year, and would rather allow a potent military rule, yet for another decade. It is classical ‘Déjà vu’ to indirectly invite the military. Army has never been out of politics but they are the masters whether in uniform or in Shirwani with Jinnah cap. The scapegoat is poor Haqqani. We hope that he is allowed to live for a while to see the end, which is unfortunately least likely.

It will prove once again that no one is tolerated from the small provinces irrespective of one’s mental knacks. It is a special mind set that is required to rule the country. This well tarnished mind-set is the offspring of the ideology of Pakistan, a dogma not to be questioned, critically examined, or logically assessed.

The result will be the abrogation of the constitution and introduction of a unitary system once again. The struggle of small provinces will start from the scratch again should Pakistan survives.

This is not an unexpected or unimaginable in Pakistan. This is the only country where civilians invite military to rule, where sweets are distributed on military take over, where judiciary has voluntarily surrendered its independence. Where personal vendetta has priority over the country’s integrity.

I fail to understand why the people of Pakistan are much infatuated by egoism. This big headedness has cost them to loose the very logic of its creation.

Whether it is our army or Judiciary they are all radicalised and are shut to reason. The present front on collision with their master will cost them dearly. The two institutions are highly politicised along radicalism. This is the only country that is demanding respect for service rendered by its rulers to their masters.

The army has lost professionalism, the judiciary is partisan, and the majority of lawmakers are a bunch of those who have failed to achieve anything in any other fields. They are shut to logic and never learn from the past. They are the drivers who never look in the mirror to see the past or side mirror to see who is overtaking. They are so immune to accidents that they never remember them.

Internationally we are isolated. We are neither reliable friends nor dependable allies. Internally we have no policy and the cornerstone of our external policy is to oppose anything that India supports. They are amnesic to the past, and blind to the future. Probably we have borrowed this from great communist King Mao who said that oppose any thing and every thing done by Americans otherwise you are a revisionist.