Much is being said about trying General Musharraf for all he has wreaked on this country. There is a great deal to hold him accountable for, Kargil, high treason, threatening an elected prime minister, making himself head of state in complete violation of the Constitution, violations of the oath he took under the Constitution when he joined the armed forces, engaging in politics while a soldier in the employ of the Government of Pakistan, illegal extension of service beyond the age of superannuation, contempt of court of the most heinous kind by insulting, threatening, suspending and arresting the Chief Justice of Pakistan and his family on March 9, 2007, and the removal and arrest of all the superior court judges along with their families on Nov 3, 2007. The charge sheet was never written for us to see but it is something we have all lived through and are all acutely aware of.
What we are also aware of is that we have removed a dictator not through military intervention where he has handed over his presidential baton to the army chief al a Ayub Khan, or be blown up like Zia-ul-Haq, but by the citizenry showing that real power lies with them. The events of the past year and a half, the movement spearheaded by the lawyers and taken to the nation by the media has forever changed the country and the way we do politics. We have discovered that we have a voice, we can effect change and we can hold those in power accountable.
Categories : 
10:37 PM
Moderate Islamist here
0 comments:
Post a Comment