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Amending the Constitution MR Omar Kureishi in his column ‘All over the place’ (April 30) seems to have ventured into unfamiliar territory. When commenting on the best suited form of government for us, he says: “We appear to have tried a number of them.” The fact is that from the very beginning we adopted only the colonial pattern of the Government of India Act 1935. The founding fathers of Pakistan were honest enough to publicly adopt the colonial pattern as a stop gap arrangement till we made a democratic constitution worthy of an independent nation. The Quaid-i-Azam, M.A. Jinnah, had categorically urged the legislators not to follow the colonial pattern in constitution-making. But all the constitutions of Pakistan were primarily based on the pattern of the colonial act; albeit the fancy labels put on them. Mr Roeded Khan in his article ‘Witness to history’ (April 27) narrates that at the time of the making of the 1973 Constitution no one, including the ‘main characters in the constitutional drama’ knew the end. If we had not been swept away by the forceful eloquence of the constitution-makers we would have obs
