One must praise and appreciate CJs advice to the visiting army officers from Staff College Quetta on 16 April in the Supreme Court. Military interventions weakened democratic institutions. Democratic governments failed to enforce the rule of law. All arms of state must act in aid of the Supreme Court. These were the highlights of his address.
As far as I remember, the army intervened only on the invitation of the politicians or when wrong steps were initiated by the rulers of a particular time, duly endorsed later by the then Supreme Court. Unfortunately, the democratic governments in the past and of present have failed to enforce the rule of law beside so many other follies. Everyone agrees that all arms of the state must act together. The question is what should be done when the government makes it a point to flout the orders of the Supreme Court and create hindrances and bottlenecks on every step.
SALMAN BABAR
Lahore
