Politicize Justice
The election of 18th February did not only decide the real will of the people of Pakistan but also gave a great sense of responsibility to the new government. The main alliance parties in government, Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League (N), soon after the election results focused on the issue resolving strategy with the help of consensus building among the power sharing parties. The first issue which was acknowledged to be the most important one among all powers sharing powers was the restoration of Justice by re-instatement of all judges. After this, it was expected that the lawyers’ movement would exclude the element of violence from their struggle. However, the immediate events after the making of new government proved this expectation a fake one.
The election of 18th February did not only decide the real will of the people of Pakistan but also gave a great sense of responsibility to the new government. The main alliance parties in government, Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League (N), soon after the election results focused on the issue resolving strategy with the help of consensus building among the power sharing parties. The first issue which was acknowledged to be the most important one among all powers sharing powers was the restoration of Justice by re-instatement of all judges. After this, it was expected that the lawyers’ movement would exclude the element of violence from their struggle. However, the immediate events after the making of new government proved this expectation a fake one.
To re-instate the judges on the position of 9th March is not an easy task as it apparently perceives, especially when the government is bound to work with an un-constitutional man in the form of president. Though, judiciary being a separate institution has its sanctity which could only be maintained after the re-instatement of judges, however, for the smooth change, its important to give the government proper time to resolve this issue without emphasizing on the particular ultimatums.
The incident with former Minister for Law and Parliamentary affairs Dr Sher Afgan Niazi on 8th April in Lahore was an effort to defame the lawyers’ movement and lot of deliberations took place by the lawyers. However, the reverse action was seen in Karachi, in which eleven people were killed, at least six of them feared to be lawyers, and several others injured when violence broke on the clash between two groups of lawyers outside the City. These two events significantly affected the lawyers’ movement. Mr.Aitezaz Ahzan, the president Supreme Court, continuously kept on identifying some hidden hands that are doing intrigues against the lawyers’ movement.
The incident on 5th March in Rawalpindi Bar is an important one, where Aitezaz Ahsan was going to address about his contest in by-polls from NA-55; suddenly a fight had started between the two groups of lawyers. However, it was controlled by the senior lawyers. But again when Mr Aitezaz started his speech again, a lawyer used an abusive language against one of the correspondent of TV channel, which disturbed the whole gathering. Therefore, Media boycotted the conference; however it was patched up after a while.
Justice is not a matter of once own choice. It’s the universal phenomenon which should not be used for the personal benefit of any person or party. To keep the lawyers struggle alive, it’s important, not to politicize it. Otherwise it would loose its real objective and the struggle for the restoration of judges would be derailed.
Zamurrad Awan
zamurredawan@yahoo.com
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