We would not have come to such a pass had our state organs been functioning within the limits prescribed for them in the constitution of the country. Not only did the executive and the judiciary fail to come up to the expectations of the common man of this country, parliament too has let him down. These institutions which are considered to be the pillars of the country have disappointed the masses. Heaven would not have fallen if our civil servants and the police refused to put into effect the illegal orders of the sitting governments. At the most they would have have been made OSDs and that would have been the end of the matter. Nobody could have hanged them. In the same manner, if the judges had refused to invoke the so-called Doctrine of Necessity to legalise the rule by the jackboot , nobody could have send them to the gallows. The fact of the matter is that the lucrative appointments held by them were more dear to them than the law of the land.
The attitude and conduct of our parliamentarians too left much to be desired. The general perception is that this country has been let down more by the elite and the educated class than the have-nots and illiterate people. The other day a senior civil servant of grade-20 belonging to the Pakistan Administrative Service working in the Finance ministry was caught stealing the wallet of a member of Kuwaiti delegation in Islamabad stuffed with an handsome amount. We have read and heard our taxi drivers returning money to the passengers who forget to leave their wallets in their taxis during the course of their journey after tracing them out. This officer deserves no leniency. He has disgraced this country and all the people living in it. It would be a crime to forgive this criminal.
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