Daily Times: Syed Kamran Ashraf: The security of the borders should not come at the cost of sacrificing the ideological framework of the nation that is represented through its constitution.
After abrogating the constitution twice, General Musharraf has yet again derided the will of the people by scornfully alluding to it as a ‘piece of paper’. In his opinion, the constitution once again, somehow is jeopardising the existence of the state of Pakistan just as it did in 1999, and any attempt to save the former would invariably lead to the fall of the latter. He expressed his old mendacious rhetoric both in the local media and on international forums. While addressing a group of people in the Aspen Ideas Festival in the United States, he criticised the Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government in Islamabad and said:
“The state is being run into the ground. As a result, Pakistanis are looking to the military for help in stabilising the country. The situation poses a dilemma for the military. The military can violate the constitution to ‘save the state’, or it can allow the constitution to be followed and risk the state will fail.”
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