When crisis is mismanaged...

'The PDM leaders - including Nawaz Sharif who remains absconding in London - are least concerned whether the Constitution is desecrated, state institutions are destroyed or even Pakistan Army earns a bad name. They are looking for their vested interests of saving the looted wealth alone,' alleged former PM and PTI chairman Imran Khan in a video link speech on May 17.

Never ever in its history has Pakistan come across such serious economic, political and judicial crises, exposing the fragility of our state institutions to manage the dangerous situation.

The humiliation being caused to the Chief Justice of Pakistan and his fellow judges by the sitting Prime Minister and his cabinet is unprecedented. Resolution after resolution passed by the parliament against judiciary means the rule of law has dwindled. The situation is worse than the PML-N-instigated attack on the Supreme Court building in November 1997. Defiance showed by the ministries of finance, defence and interior on assisting the holding of Punjab Assembly elections on May 14 as ordered by the Supreme Court is unprecedented, and so is the failure of the election commission to take a firm stand on making election arrangements on the scheduled date.

...