Karachi:
The judge of the Supreme Court Athar Minallah deplored that the nation has learned nothing from history, whose “distorted” version is taught to the children of our schools.
“A society in which the truth disappears is required to collapse. The breakdown of Pakistan in 1971 was rooted at the time of its creation, and the books exist to prove it,” said the court of Apex on Thursday.
Judge Minallah addressed a Karachi seminar organized in the city courts by the Karachi Bar association on judicial independence, the constitutional government and access to justice.
The seminar was followed by the former president of the Court of the Supreme Court (SCBA), the former president MUNIR, in Malik, the main lawyers, the managers of the Karachi bar and a large number of defenders.
The judge said that the people of former East Pakistan did not want separation but “we have pushed them back”. He said that the real leaders are the people and that their representatives should come to power by free and fair elections. “However, this is only one dream to date,” he said.
He said the 77 -year -old Pakistani system has deteriorated to the point that people even hesitate to openly name the five “hero judges”. “If these judges had been adopted as models, the dictatorship would never have taken root,” he said.
Recalling the lawyer movement, he said that 90 lawyers had sacrificed their lives during the resistance against the former general dictator Pervez Musharraf. “We cannot betray these 90 people,” he said. “Our generation has already done the damage. We cannot blame others; we have done with our own hands.”
Speaking of his oath as a judge, judge Minallah said that since he has sworn in the name of Allah, there is no need for additional promises. This oath, he said, led him to decide on affairs according to the law, without fear, and to defend the Constitution.
“Because I have sworn in the name of Allah, I am responsible for him. If there is no constitutional government in the country today and that, as a judge, I do nothing, then I violate my oath.” He stressed that Great Britain has no written constitution, but the rule of law prevails.
He praised the Karachi Bar Association to stand with Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah against the dictatorship of General Ayub Khan.
“The whole basis of the Constitution is that the right to the rule belongs only to the elected representatives of the people. However, we are mistaken and even God by ignoring this oath. If we have honored our oaths, the rights of the people could be protected.”
Mining a Malik also approached the seminar, saying that “hybrid systems” essentially mean dictatorship, not constitutional governance. The only way to follow, he said, is the constitution.
He recalled that when east and west of Pakistan were to be governed by a constitution, an elected assembly had been formed without rigging. When this assembly prepared a constitution, it was dissolved by the civil and military establishment – laying the foundations for the rupture of Pakistan.
He recalled that even General Ziaul Haq admitted that the judges had condemned Zulfikar Ali Bhutto under pressure, despite the initial refusal.
Malik said Karachi Bar is the same platform where Quaid-Ezam Muhammad Ali Jinnah once addressed lawyers. “This bar has always been a wall against anarchy,” he said, praising judge Athar Minallah as a vital part of the lawyer’s movement.
