In his message on the Pakistan Day, the PTI Chairman Imran Khan has once again renewed his resolve to transform this country into an Islamic Welfare State. This phrase had been used by the Founder of this country with such an emphatic consistency that to associate his name with any other concept regarding the objectives behind the creation of Pakistan will be intellectual dishonesty of the highest order.
The concept of making Pakistan an Islamic Welfare State was incorporated in the famous Charter of Objectives that constitutes the preamble of this country’s constitution. The irony is that whereas the preamble of our Constitution commits us to the goal of making this country an Islamic Welfare State, the body of the constitution strives to negate this objective by relying heavily on the 1935 act that our British rulers had adopted to govern us.
Unless Imran Khan publically commits himself to the cause of addressing the ironical paradox that characterizes our Constitution, his envisioned goal of creating a modern-day Islamic Welfare State will be regarded only as a work of oratory.
I personally know Imran Khan is sincere in his dreams but it can’t be helped that he is heading a party that has grown into a junction of several paradoxes. These paradoxes will grow more noticeable when the intra-party elections are held.
