ahlam1399
07-31-2017, 06:08 PM
In Pakistani politics, history has been mercilessly repeating itself and regretfully without an exception so far as the fate of holders of the prime minister’s ****** is concerned. ** one was able to complete the term. They were shown the exit door under duress, at gun point or by gavel. The change in tactics may be visible but ** change in the mindset that is determined to maintain its supremacy without indulging in the merits or demerits. For, according to them, it is too serious business that can**t be left with the civilian leadership alone. This narrative does **t carry compatibility with the accepted and civilised **rms of civil- military relationship equation because the state consists of Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary. Khakis being one important part of the Executive the role as such eschewing from the narrative of state within state which is very crucial in the equilibrium. The well-entrenched perception within and beyond needs to be rectified. The history of this country is full of embarrassments caused during the tyrannical rule. The ideological, political and eco**mic mess facing the country is all the mind blowing legacies of the despotic rule.
The disqualification of Nawaz Sharif by the apex court on July 27 this year has the similarity with PPP Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani to the extent that he was also disqualified by the apex court in the month of July, 2012 after completing four years. The history of terminating the serving civilian prime ministers shamefully started by the **torious Gover**r General Ghulam Muhammad in collusion with the civil and military establishment. After the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, the same role was exclusively assumed by the military dictators who sacked the elected governments, on familiar charges of bad governance and corruption, **twithstanding all the prime ministers had the parliamentary legitimacy in the form of majority support in the respective parliaments. The infamous 52(2)b constitutional provision unilaterally incorporated by General Zia was a hanging sword to axe the elected governments during 80s and 90s with the exception of two (2012 and 2017) who were disqualified by the judiciary. The New York Times while reporting on the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif had the tacit support of the powers that be in the disqualification. It may be clarified by the relevant quarters because inaction will establish the veracity of the report published in the newspaper that enjoys unparalleled credibility globally.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto, while addressing the press conference after the Panama case decision, reminded the disqualified prime minister the words of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto when she stated, ‘you may succeed in conspiring against me but the day will come when you will cry to remember me and my father’. Panama judgment was yet a**ther day of his crying because he was made to taste his own medicine yet a**ther time. The situation has reached to this pass analogous to e**ugh is e**ugh? Therefore, to break the vicious cycle the politicians across the political divide may take the leaf from the history of government and politics of the country to scuttle the designs of the elements those keep lurking in the shadow to ambush at the time of their liking for which a hostile environment is created through proxies.
These lobbies had been selected and propped up to do its bidding of maintaining its supremacy by keeping the competitors vulnerable and insecure. Unfortunately, the infighting of the politicians continues to sharpen the appetite of the mindset that **w seeks to strike from the rare to take the control of the driving seat. The dream of civilian supremacy may remain a distant cry till such time the politicians do **t huddle together to plug the loopholes like articles 62 and 63 in the Constitution.
The chairman also underscored the importance of across-the-board accountability for which a necessary legislation may be enacted by the Parliament sooner than later. It may be pointed out that a draft bill on the accountability framed by the PPP is already in the Senate and the ruling party may take it up to make it law by using its parliamentary strength thus proving the credentials of its commitment on the subject. Accountability has surfaced as the national demand. Without an effective legal framework the menace of corruption will **t be addressed thoroughly which is the dire need of the hour. The loot and plunders should stop forthwith because it has brought the country to its knees. The glutto**us corrupt mafia is amassing ill-gotten money to a staggering scale at the expense of the poor people constituting almost half of the country’s population.
Panama case has proved as sky lab that crashed against the PML-N’s majority government culminating in the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court of Pakistan along with direction to NAB to file references against his children and associates including the finance minister. How unfortunate and ig**minious for the country that ** prime minister, elected or **minated, was allowed to complete the tenure of the ****** during the seventy years of its chequered political history. The anti-democratic forces always had the upper hand and succeeded in dismissing the governments much earlier than to the expiry of their constitutional term. ** wonder the country faced back to back political crisis mired in political instability pushing the nuclear power at the brink of the failed state time and again.
On the contrary, in our neighborhood Indian first Prime Minister Pundit Nehru remained Indian prime minister till his death (1964) followed by majority of the prime ministers of the country completing their tenures barring couple of exceptions due to circumstances beyond human control. **w, in Afghanistan after President Karzai the incumbent president is all set to complete his term of ******. In, Iran, the transition had been orderly in all the cases because the change of government took place after the due process as enshrined in country’s constitution and army never dared to traverse in the political domain since the revolution in 1979. Ironically, in Pakistan, whenever the civilian/elected government assumes the reign of the country the domical sword is kept hanging on their heads to keep them under tight control.
The Panama case outcome might have been different and less embarrassing if the PML-N government had accepted the combined opposition parties ToRs. The PPP tried hard to convince the prime minister that his accountability may be undertaken at the forum of Parliament instead in the court of law.
PPP being an experienced party knew that by referring the case to the court of law would shrink the space of the Parliament in favour of the judiciary that might **t bid well for the parliamentary democracy. The deadlock could **t be broken because PML-N was **t prepared to agree to the accountability by the Parliament beginning from the prime minister. The PML-N’s miscalculation of **t agreeing to the ToRs of the Opposition may cost heavily both in moral and political terms. The handling of the Panama case at the forum of the Parliament might have offered the face saving for the ruling party, and certainly had strengthened the parliamentary democratic traditions in the country. It would have also reflected the maturity of the politicians in general and of the ruling party in particular e**ugh to foil the designs of those who were k**wn for shooting from the hip. **w, the PML-N could only cry over the spilled milk because the damage had been done that has to be borne in any case.
As we say there is ** substitute to experience. The PPP being an experienced party pro-actively lobbied and succeeded in convincing the major Opposition parties to agree on one point, resignation of the prime minister, and abandon the other demand of snap elections so that the present assemblies complete their tenure in the best interest of the continuity of democracy and the political system. The PTI also withdrew its demand of the resignation of the other PML-N leaders. The rallying point of the PPP pertaining to the stepping down of the prime minister and replacing with a**ther leader of the same party surfaced as the common demand of united opposition. Its acceptance by the government would have established good precedent based on high moral grounds. But, unfortunately, the PML-N leadership failed to comprehend the rationale of the demand and continued to insist on that the prime minister would **t resign ** matter what. Admittedly, the acceptance the demand of the Opposition might have saved the PML-N leadership from the sharp edge of the umbrage that had befallen on it when the apex court disqualified the prime minister for **t being Sadiq and Ameen under the Constitution’s articles 62 and 63.
The ground of disqualification has stirred quite a controversy in the media and among the legal fraternity some describing it as historic judgment that will address the chronic problems of corruption that has been eating into the entrails. While others are of the view that it may prove yet a**ther judgment alike Maulvi Tameezudin that had inflicted irreparable losses to the country’s democracy, and opened the flood gates of **n-representative governments in the country. However, the PPP has welcomed the judgment urging the apex court to adjudicate on the presidential reference on judicial murder of founder of the PPP and the Asghar Khan’s case.
The writer is Head of PPP Media Cell.
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The disqualification of Nawaz Sharif by the apex court on July 27 this year has the similarity with PPP Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani to the extent that he was also disqualified by the apex court in the month of July, 2012 after completing four years. The history of terminating the serving civilian prime ministers shamefully started by the **torious Gover**r General Ghulam Muhammad in collusion with the civil and military establishment. After the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, the same role was exclusively assumed by the military dictators who sacked the elected governments, on familiar charges of bad governance and corruption, **twithstanding all the prime ministers had the parliamentary legitimacy in the form of majority support in the respective parliaments. The infamous 52(2)b constitutional provision unilaterally incorporated by General Zia was a hanging sword to axe the elected governments during 80s and 90s with the exception of two (2012 and 2017) who were disqualified by the judiciary. The New York Times while reporting on the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif had the tacit support of the powers that be in the disqualification. It may be clarified by the relevant quarters because inaction will establish the veracity of the report published in the newspaper that enjoys unparalleled credibility globally.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto, while addressing the press conference after the Panama case decision, reminded the disqualified prime minister the words of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto when she stated, ‘you may succeed in conspiring against me but the day will come when you will cry to remember me and my father’. Panama judgment was yet a**ther day of his crying because he was made to taste his own medicine yet a**ther time. The situation has reached to this pass analogous to e**ugh is e**ugh? Therefore, to break the vicious cycle the politicians across the political divide may take the leaf from the history of government and politics of the country to scuttle the designs of the elements those keep lurking in the shadow to ambush at the time of their liking for which a hostile environment is created through proxies.
These lobbies had been selected and propped up to do its bidding of maintaining its supremacy by keeping the competitors vulnerable and insecure. Unfortunately, the infighting of the politicians continues to sharpen the appetite of the mindset that **w seeks to strike from the rare to take the control of the driving seat. The dream of civilian supremacy may remain a distant cry till such time the politicians do **t huddle together to plug the loopholes like articles 62 and 63 in the Constitution.
The chairman also underscored the importance of across-the-board accountability for which a necessary legislation may be enacted by the Parliament sooner than later. It may be pointed out that a draft bill on the accountability framed by the PPP is already in the Senate and the ruling party may take it up to make it law by using its parliamentary strength thus proving the credentials of its commitment on the subject. Accountability has surfaced as the national demand. Without an effective legal framework the menace of corruption will **t be addressed thoroughly which is the dire need of the hour. The loot and plunders should stop forthwith because it has brought the country to its knees. The glutto**us corrupt mafia is amassing ill-gotten money to a staggering scale at the expense of the poor people constituting almost half of the country’s population.
Panama case has proved as sky lab that crashed against the PML-N’s majority government culminating in the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court of Pakistan along with direction to NAB to file references against his children and associates including the finance minister. How unfortunate and ig**minious for the country that ** prime minister, elected or **minated, was allowed to complete the tenure of the ****** during the seventy years of its chequered political history. The anti-democratic forces always had the upper hand and succeeded in dismissing the governments much earlier than to the expiry of their constitutional term. ** wonder the country faced back to back political crisis mired in political instability pushing the nuclear power at the brink of the failed state time and again.
On the contrary, in our neighborhood Indian first Prime Minister Pundit Nehru remained Indian prime minister till his death (1964) followed by majority of the prime ministers of the country completing their tenures barring couple of exceptions due to circumstances beyond human control. **w, in Afghanistan after President Karzai the incumbent president is all set to complete his term of ******. In, Iran, the transition had been orderly in all the cases because the change of government took place after the due process as enshrined in country’s constitution and army never dared to traverse in the political domain since the revolution in 1979. Ironically, in Pakistan, whenever the civilian/elected government assumes the reign of the country the domical sword is kept hanging on their heads to keep them under tight control.
The Panama case outcome might have been different and less embarrassing if the PML-N government had accepted the combined opposition parties ToRs. The PPP tried hard to convince the prime minister that his accountability may be undertaken at the forum of Parliament instead in the court of law.
PPP being an experienced party knew that by referring the case to the court of law would shrink the space of the Parliament in favour of the judiciary that might **t bid well for the parliamentary democracy. The deadlock could **t be broken because PML-N was **t prepared to agree to the accountability by the Parliament beginning from the prime minister. The PML-N’s miscalculation of **t agreeing to the ToRs of the Opposition may cost heavily both in moral and political terms. The handling of the Panama case at the forum of the Parliament might have offered the face saving for the ruling party, and certainly had strengthened the parliamentary democratic traditions in the country. It would have also reflected the maturity of the politicians in general and of the ruling party in particular e**ugh to foil the designs of those who were k**wn for shooting from the hip. **w, the PML-N could only cry over the spilled milk because the damage had been done that has to be borne in any case.
As we say there is ** substitute to experience. The PPP being an experienced party pro-actively lobbied and succeeded in convincing the major Opposition parties to agree on one point, resignation of the prime minister, and abandon the other demand of snap elections so that the present assemblies complete their tenure in the best interest of the continuity of democracy and the political system. The PTI also withdrew its demand of the resignation of the other PML-N leaders. The rallying point of the PPP pertaining to the stepping down of the prime minister and replacing with a**ther leader of the same party surfaced as the common demand of united opposition. Its acceptance by the government would have established good precedent based on high moral grounds. But, unfortunately, the PML-N leadership failed to comprehend the rationale of the demand and continued to insist on that the prime minister would **t resign ** matter what. Admittedly, the acceptance the demand of the Opposition might have saved the PML-N leadership from the sharp edge of the umbrage that had befallen on it when the apex court disqualified the prime minister for **t being Sadiq and Ameen under the Constitution’s articles 62 and 63.
The ground of disqualification has stirred quite a controversy in the media and among the legal fraternity some describing it as historic judgment that will address the chronic problems of corruption that has been eating into the entrails. While others are of the view that it may prove yet a**ther judgment alike Maulvi Tameezudin that had inflicted irreparable losses to the country’s democracy, and opened the flood gates of **n-representative governments in the country. However, the PPP has welcomed the judgment urging the apex court to adjudicate on the presidential reference on judicial murder of founder of the PPP and the Asghar Khan’s case.
The writer is Head of PPP Media Cell.
([email protected])
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