By Aziz Bilal:

Remembering Abdul Qudoos

It’s been long since I did my Pakistan Studies course and learned that the Objective Resolution of Pakistan has as its leading contour;

“Whereas sovereignty over the entire Universe belongs to Almighty Allah alone, and the authority to be exercised by the people of Pakistan within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust.”

I still recall the extreme honoured sensation while bearing in mind my existence in a realm which accepts the sovereignty of Almighty Allah. Sadly writing, I grew up to learn a complete contrary that it was a motherland that upkeeps the sovereignty of all but Allah. We neglect felony but fear felonious. Apparently we denounce crime but covertly titivate criminals. We regard the law where it suppresses weak and deride it when it collides with our vested interests. This delays justice and even denies it. This is the dilemma of our society and this exasperates the sufferers who by finding no way to vent their frustration opt for disrespecting law.

What to write, where to begin, I see injustices every now and then. The never ending soap serial of injustices started very few days after the demise of the founder of this land. We rejected his thoughts, we lost his vision. The saddening history of this land is marked with discrimination towards minorities – it is an irony that the people who based their struggle of independence on being a suppressed minority and aimed at protecting the rights of Muslims of India have themselves severely persecuted every minority. This dismaying history is marked with countless injustices towards Hindus, Christians, Shias and Ahmadis.