I can’t help applauding these bravest of brave men sitting in the seats of judgment in the country’s highest court —- trying to defy the heaviest of the odds so that the people’s expectations invested in their ability to deliver fearless justice are fulfilled.
What makes their task Herculean and dauntless is the realization in their minds and hearts that they are required to deliver justice against the system that they also feel hounour-bound to defend.
Case after case this governing setup, that calls its aggressively ‘democratic’ has gone overboard to find all the ways and all the means of defying the instructions as well as the orders of the court.
Resultantly the whole concept of the rule of law and of the supremacy of justice stands perilously close to the brink of extinction. It is quite clear that this government is prepared to take full advantage of the paradox that the highest court of the country finds itself in. Any harsh step on the part of the Judiciary will put the whole system in jeopardy. And that is one option that the Chief Justice has vowed not to exercise.
Yet a moment does arrive in one’s life when in the highest interests of the state and the people, one has to sacrifice an ideal of lesser importance. The question that the Chief Justice of Pakistan and his brave colleagues on the bench may be forced to ask themselves soon: “Do we necessarily have to sacrifice the country for the system?”
27-07-2011
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