AS Pakistanis we are fond of setting new records for Guiness Book or otherwise. Change of government at gunpoint (rallies) will also be a world record. But the precedent will be poor. Any union or group, having 10,000 to 15,000 people, can walk to D-Chowk and hold a sit-in to get the government on one pretext or another.

Anyone who can re-enact Sultan Rahi and speak his dialogue in his tone will have the right to rule. Any hockey, cricket or squash player, with some international trophy, will have the right to assume the reins of the country. Anyone who has a hospital built to his credit will have the right to walk in the Prime Minister House.

Also, the act of treason or anti-state crimes may please be removed from the Constitution as infringement upon the right of expression. Will this be the ‘new Pakistan’?

Amjad Habib Mirza
Lahore

Published in Dawn, September 19th, 2014