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April 26, 2002
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Safar 12, 1423
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The relativity of what is legal
Is anyone listening?
Impure water for children
Vindicating whom?
‘BJP in a bind’
Sanctity of Bismillah...
Investment scam
Military role for women
Wapda claim
Missing passports
Streetlights in Turbat
Brain drain
Absurd contention
Transport
The culture of terror
The relativity of what is legal
THIS is with reference to Mr Kamal Azfar’s talk on PTV ‘News Night’ programme on April 18. He talked about the sanctity of the 1973 Constitution and the consent of the people behind it, which is the essence of democracy. Alas! this facet of democracy is not visible in the working of the constitution in Pakistan by the champions of democracy. Immediately after the promulgation of the 1973 Constitution, the fundamental rights provided in it were suspended.
Where is democracy? The constitution was amended to reduce the president to the position of a rubber-stamp because the prime minister was not satisfied with his number two position in the hierarchy of Pakistan. This is surely not what the people desired or desire even now. Our politicians have been tried and failed. Here is a new man out of the
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