The Supreme Court outshines all.

Byline: Mushtaq Ahmed

'Every force in the country is subservient to the constitution and if anyone is not then it is a traitor in view of the Article 5 and 6 of the constitution' 'Are we living in a police state? We have already lost half of the country '. Justice Qazi Faez Isa, Member, two-judge Bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam: The media reports, Feb.7, 2019

In an unpredictable creation of history of the fifth largest democracy of the world---Pakistan, the Supreme Court of Pakistan handed down historic verdict in TLP's sit-in case, introducing a litmus test for the complex and tricky commerce of individual, society, institutions and state in the new era of information philosophy, digital framework and new biological and social questions. The radius of the verdict is enormously wide-spread and deep-rooted one going beyond the case at hand.

Unlike routine decisions of the apex court, the author of the aforesaid verdict Justice Qazi Fuez Isa in hand with Justice Mushir Alam judiciously and courageously probed into ten years crucial period from May 12, 2007 to November, 2017 in our national history during which the state of Pakistan had to endure vital assaults on it by the powerful organised individuals, groups and organisations. The evident collapse of the system of the state generated a powerful current of lawlessness and anarchism in the country which has become unluckily the focal state in global politics after 9/11 incident of 2001.The honourable judges deciding the long awaited case exercised maximum restraint, in order to avoid enter into the labyrinth of legalism determining the fate of judicial dispensation, embarking upon the spirit of the constitution and elaborating the gravity of the plain incidents of violence, incursions, bloodsheds, plundering and ransacks adding yet another chapter in the tragic history of Pakistan.

The major sufferers of turmoil after turmoil were the dignity of the state, man, society, rule of law and the failure of the state as well during the incidents of May 12, 2007 and November, 2017. Ugliest reign of furious agitators and violent violators exposed the inefficiency, irrelevance and apathy of those who get princely perks and privileges from the hard-earned money of the tax-payers, the verdict highlights. The verdict does not only carry philosophic insightfulness and universal law of history that throws light on the follies and deficiencies of the past but also tells the course of dangerous tomorrow...