THERE are many in Pakistan who argue that the problem with the country is not its uneducated millions, but its educated: those who ought to know better (and too often, to the detriment of the rest of the country, operate under the belief that they do).
Let us take the legal community as a representative case. In Lahore, controversy has been stirred by a supposed ban on the sale of Shezan juices at the canteen of the district and sessions court.
A group of lawyers who call themselves the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat Lawyers’ Forum moved a Lahore Bar Association resolution to curtail the sale of the brand on the grounds that the company was owned by members of the Ahmadi community. And while bar officials say that in order to hold, the resolution has to be approved by the general council of the LBA, the prohibitive atmosphere is such that the brand has already vanished from the lower courts’ canteen.
Categories: Human Rights, Law and Religion, Pakistan