The Election Commission of Pakistan must be appreciated for implementing Article 63-1 of the Constitution. But why is it applicable only to our parliamentarians? Surely, this should apply equally to all the other pillars of government as well: the bureaucracy, the judiciary, the armed forces etc.
I hope the summary being moved by the law ministry on this will cover that any and all people being paid from the Government Treasury, should be Pakistanis and must not hold dual nationality nor have foreign passports.
MAQBOOL H H RAHIMTOOLA
Karachi
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The Election Commission of Pakistan has announced that from the coming Senate Elections, which is expected to take place in March 2012, onward anyone having double nationality will be disqualified to contest elections in Pakistan.
There are very good reasons for such a regulation. Citizenship is usually conferred upon newcomers by making them to take an oath or a pledge that they will serve the country’s interest which is about to confer its citizenship. In today’s globalised world, dual citizenship will bring the holder into a moral dilemma as to which interest to serve when there is a clash of interest between the two countries the citizenship of whom he is holding.
Though Great Britain is the former colonial master of Pakistan, responsible for the millions of dead and displaced during the partition, and though the US since the fifties has been interfering in Pakistan’s internal affairs while trampling upon its sovereignty, Pakistanis for one reason or the other prefer to hold exactly the citizenship of those two enemies of Pakistan. A clash of interest is, therefore, inevitable. While the regulation announced by the EC is therefore much in the interest of the country, its effect will depend on its implementation which is usually an entirely different matter in Pakistani practice.
I suggest law should be made to disqualify all those who have accounts and properties in Swiss, US and European safe havens. This money of ours is not taxed in our country but is rather used by these banks to finance wars and propaganda.
ALI ASHRAF KHAN
Karachi
Dual Nationality holders should be debarred from serving in our armed forces, police, security agencies, civil bureaucracy, foreign service, FBR, and senior executive assignments in state corporations like PIA, PSO, PSM, etc and those holding constitutionally protected assignments such as Auditor General of Pakistan, Gov State Bank of Pakistan, President National Bank, Attorney General of Pakistan etc. I suggest just google search the US Oath of Nationality that every new individual has to take. He pledges to serve and protect the interests of USA , overriding any other oaths that he has taken in the past, even if this requires to take up arms. Such a law will curtail the excess transfer of capital that is taking place today courtesy the powerful dual nationality elite that holds key positions in Pakistan.
What was and is common between all the corrupt men in politics, civil bureaucracy and the khakis is that either they or their children and spouses have dual nationalities. It is not a coincidence that Admiral Retd Mansoor ul Haq the man involved in the submarine scam rip off and Hamesh Khan of Punjab Bank, or those involved in the Railway land scam and NICL etc alongwith senior bureaucrats of FBR involved in Missing Containers scam are all dual nationality holders.
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