Even though the 18th amendment has arrived to signal the end of the unwanted parts of the much-despised 17th amendment, the political environment happens to be giving signals that not all is right for this order.
It is hard for most honest people not to have a feeling that the order whose beneficiaries go overboard proving it democratic is probably among the most disorderly ones in our history.
This feeling I tend to believe is rooted in the knowledge that the good things addressed in the 18th amendment have not come alone. These are accompanied by a host of bad things that at the worst, may have sinister motives behind them, and at best be an effort on the part of the parliament to self-destruct. Either way these irritants have assassinated the very purpose of having constitutional reforms. The proof of this statement is the fact that the government is heading towards the kind of engagement with the judiciary which is most likely to lead to the derailment of the ‘order’ that the 18th amendment seeks to strengthen.
The ‘irritants’ I am referring to, happen to be a logical consequence of the ‘expediencies’ that brought the PPP, the ANP, the MQM, the JUI and most importantly the PML (N) together.
The opposition we have seen in the last two years has clearly been an opposition by arrangement. The ‘spirit’ behind this arrangement has been named as National Reconciliation—a phrase that President loves to use in the defense of his wheeling-dealings. The PML (N) leadership tries to justify its ‘contrived and controlled opposition’ by arguing that more flamboyant opposition is likely to derail the whole system.
The truth however is that this system or order has been raised on an unholy alliance of self-centred designs in which each component has its own sinister agenda.
RESULTANTLY WE ARE STILL HANGING BETWEEN A DEAD YESTERDAY AND AN UNBORN TOMORROW. OUR TODAY IS SIMPLY A VOID.
- Latest
- Trending
