Lessons from Constitutional History

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[I am used to reading such crap about Jinnah s life in Indian paper & i can understand there moribund sickeming obsession with corpses of Jinnah for he put there tail on fire & sent Indian pirouetting real good right or wrong as soon as they gave him the Excuse for one!!!!]

No. The Indians, AS USUAL, are right: on Jinnah, on Pakistan, on the Two Nation Theory, and yes, even on the Partition. After all, it was Sardar Patel who said it is better to amputate the diseased limb than live with it. We all can see from the current elections in Pakistan what state of necrosis the diseased limb has reached.

[There is no use of your opinion insignificant as it is & some more than 60 yrs too late of use .]

Again you are wrong. You are about 1400 years too late, not just 60.

[Maybe i might not have votedfor Jinnah then but no body asked me either.]

You probably would have voted for Maulana Maudoodi in the very first election in Pakistan. You probably are looking up to the Islamic Republic of Iran as THE model state.

The real question that you avoid answering is: have you stopped beating your wife with the stick whose specifications are spelled out in Al-Kitab?

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totally agree with ``urstruly`` on this.........i dont understand what kind of attemp writer is making to prove Mr Jinnah as some sort of dictator....how can one see resemblance in dismissal of Dr Khan`s NWFP Govt for non alliance with Pakistan although through refrendum it was decided that NWFP will join pakistan in very first week of creation of Pakistan with the dismisal of Khwaja Nazimudin`s Govt by disgrace like Ghulam Muhammad.............may be legally it can be prove as same thing but its a very foolish attemp to criticise Mr Jinnah on these basis.

I think Pakistanis should stop debating endlessly their past. It is very rare to see at Chowk or in Pakistani newspapers an article that says, okay, where do we go from here? How do we ensure that elected leaders push legislation through that would make Pakistan a better country for ordinary people? How do we reform the judiciary and the education system? How do we make the government of Pakistan accountable and transparent? How do we make the military mind its own business of defending the borders and not always trying to save the country from its unruly leaders? How do we make the military accountable to the elected PM and not vice versa? How do we slow the population growth? How in the world the country is going to feed all those mouths and provide jobs?

It’s futile to focus just on past and not the future. One does not see the Americans, or in fact any other country, endlessly debating their past, that Thomas Jefferson, in spite of his brilliance, owned slaves and had black mistresses whom he abused, that when America was created those who were not White did not even matter and were not part of the nation building. What matters to America today is the present and the future direction of the country, the sins of its fathers and a lot of its wrongs lie in the history books and are not the obsession of the policy making of today. It`s true that you learn from the past, but the focus is the future. A smart country knows that if you do not prepare for the future today, there will be no future.

And it’s pretty bad that the author of this article did not even bother to check the spelling errors before submitting this essay to Chowk, even the title has an error!

AkhiaN waalio akhaiN bari na`amat haiN.

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