Salient features of Constitution of Pakistan
All together, there are 280 articles/features of this document, which is quite a thin manuscript by all standards and yet it never stops amazing us to hear the controversies and incongruities in regard to its interpretations. We will avoid going into details as to why the document was written in such an ambiguous way that the so called experts could deduce the meanings of their liking. It’s not our intention to go through all the points and see if the document is followed in its spirit by the involved in the affairs of the state.
The document starts with a declaration that all sovereignty belongs to the Almighty Allah alone and the authority to be exercised by the people of Pakistan with the limits prescribed by him is a sacred trust. It states about the will of people to establish order and state shall exercise its power and authority through chosen representatives.
Principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice as preached by Islam shall be fully observed.
Wherein the fundamental rights would be guaranteed.
Wherein the minorities would be allowed to profess and practice their religion.
The independence of the judiciary would be secured.
In our analysis of this document, we will look at all important articles and see if the manuscript lives up to its name.
It’s interesting to note that the document, right from the beginning declares the ultimate authority of Allah, which is exercised by the people of Pakistan.
Do we see Allah in action anywhere in Pakistan? You ill agree that unfortunately He doesn’t make his presence perceptual. Our governments are worse than heathen, our society has grown sinful and decadent and the country as a whole is heading towards a complete annihilation, and that is not a hallmark of a society walking in the footsteps of its creator. Allah is as remote from our present state of wretched existence as the stars lying at remotest parts of the universe are from the earth. When it comes to exercise authority by the people of Pakistan, one needs to stay still and wonder, what possibly could be meant by the statement. The overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens are illiterate even for the day and don’t even know the basics of life and lack the capacity to distinguish right from wrong. These are not even independent individuals who can take action with the help of their own thinking minds. These are enchained by the vices of kinship, ethnicity, provincialism, sectarian thinking and other such like things. These people of Pakistan are slaves of Landlords, Capitalists, Mullahs and other powerful groups, so how are these supposed to exercise the will of their creator? In order to accomplish that they have to become conscious first. They have to become free before they can learn how a free man thinks. A man striving to provide with a loaf of bread for his family, can’t stand against and proclaim the will of the Almighty. The will of the people of Pakistan remains absent and therefore the vacuum is filled by the vile will of the loathsome few. So this proclamation from the very start is nothing but a big lie. The authors of this document have tried to fool us by declaring that they sought the pleasure of their creator, Allah, while in truth, they were just using big words to conceal the bitter truth. There is nothing new over here, it is a clever manipulating tactic used by all throughout the human history, when they had intended to exploit religion for purposes of their own. The Egyptian Pharaos also were here to implement the will of their gods, the priests of Esther were doing the likewise and so did the early popes of Vatican. Pakistan as an Islamic state is something we’ll be discussing even further on, but believe that at the moment it suffices.
The state, according to the constitution, is supposed to exercise its power and authority through chosen representatives of the people.
What becomes of this assertion, we all know. How can these people make right choices, even if they were given the right to do so? These fools are cheated again and again by the powerful and cunning people of the society. They have been even robbed by different methods employed by the ones who control the tools of manipulation and power. With an imperfect system the thieves are allowed to become he so called representatives of the people and none can do a thing about it. This representation is like giving people a right to chose their suppressers/executors.
The principles of democracy, freedom, equality………
Great words are used here, but just by looking at our wretched society, we know that these words are empty shells, devoid of any purpose, meaning or significance. What principles are we talking about here? Which democracy is preached? What kind of freedoms are being offered by the creators of this document? Equality! What equality? When did we treat people equally in this land of the pure? We can observe that these comedians who made this constitution succeeded in amusing us. Were they devoid of all understanding or some illiterate just copied some other country’s constitution? A country where oceans lay between two members of the same economic class, an equality is a far fetched dream, or perhaps not even that. A society, where a vadera can still go around and rape the poor girls and no law can touch him and a country where local heads can order collective rape of innocent, is certainly not a place where the word equality should even be pronounced. There could be millions of examples we could enumerate, but there is no need to, as surely we all can do it on our own. Conti...