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Now or Never
Whenever disease sticks out in a way it is easier to cope with, provided some good healer is available. Our country is under evil influence of the innumerable ‘evil stars’ so valid & robust actions alone can take it out therefrom. On the other hand the mind level of our political as well as religious leadership is so shallow that no one can think it of any worth to submit some doable suggestions to them. Nevertheless patriotism compels every sane mind to sort out some way out for healing the protracted injuries our homeland has been suffering from.
Terrorism is our key concern of course. So I as practicing lawyer can express plainly that those who are of the view that accused of terrorism can be punished by ordinary courts, are either naive or by producing before courts they in fact are seeking safe passage for them. The conviction chances for terrorists in courts are not more than one percent. And this is why Allah Almighty has provided different way out while dealing with cases of terrorism than copping with ordinary cases in the Holy Qur’an. How to curb terrorism Spot-Justice is the effective & realistic way out. Allah Almighty says in Holy Qur’an:
“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,
Except for those who return [repenting] before you apprehend them. And know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful”. (5.33-34)
To cut back sectarianism it must be noted that Al Qur’an is not an ordinary religious book, its Allah Almighty’s Final Testament bestowed to humanity through His Almighty Final Prophet, Mohammad PBUH. It’s the only source of Divine Wisdom, which hem in this life as well as hereafter. So it is impossible for any individual seminary Mullah to accomplish sound interpretation of Divine Wisdom individually. A world body of world class scholars is ergo a must to avoid blunders we have been committing in interpretation. I appeal same grand arrangement for the Holy Ahadit.
To rein in provincialism and unmanageability of the present four mammoth provinces the long due sure cure is to convert the original 22 divisions into 22 provinces and each province be given equal share in the federal divisible pool without further delay. By doing so the present unmanageable, divergent and irregular provinces shall become manageable, regular and convergent. And whatever progress that is going on would be distributed evenly and would cause no side effects. The over population, over congestion, over burdening and over crossing on four specific point; Karachi, Lahore Peshawar and Quetta shall be relaxed justly. And so it shall eliminate name game, blame game & ethnic tumult in the country, for each of the newly born province shall adopt her divisional name as a provincial name. By taking this radical step the negative effects of over congestion in the four present provincial headquarters, e.g. Karachi, Lahore, Quetta & Peshawar will be eliminated.
It must be made possible to deal out the hit-and-miss territories into the three basic & systematic residential, agricultural and commercial areas in each province. And so each province shall have its own High Court & branch of Supreme Court at its provincial headquarter.
Thanks to dictator Gen Zia that all kind of weaponry and drugs & sects of assortment are multiplying day by day. So all the weapons of all kinds whatsoever whether of prohibited bores or unprohibited bores must be ordered to be delivered to the respective police stations throughout the country on receiving a competent & legal receipt wherein all particulars of owner as well as the weapon have been entered. Thereafter ruthless search operation must be carried out by Pak Army and not a single person or family be allowed to maintain weapon of any kind. All the recovered weapons should be confiscated to state in real sense of the world. After concluding absolute weapon cleansing, every citizen may be issued to only a Pak Made double barrel shotgun of a specific bore along with a license. By arranging for robust search drives the safe dens for the proclaimed offenders & other criminals must be made impossible. The number of proclaimed offenders is in thousands if not in lacks and they are involved in committing crimes of all kinds by default.
To distinguish between sectarianism and terrorism all parties, outfits, which have been constituted on the basis of any color, creed, castes, sect, region and ethnicity must be outlawed and be eliminate mercilessly.
To eliminate feudal power centers all agriculture holdings of the landlords, which are exceeding 25 acre per family be confiscated and distributed among the real peasants. And income of agriculture barons must be brought in the tax grid.
All the governmental or semi governmental schools, all the governmental or semi governmental seminaries and all the private or semi private schools must be converted into uniformed governmental schools, wherein common curriculum are to be taught up to metric level. And thereafter every student should be given the option to select special curriculum leading to medicine, engineering, law, Islamic Study, Computer Science and so forth. And the student who selects Islamic Study he may be awarded master decree after studding to master level as Islamic Scholar. And he alone would be entitled to be appointed as Imam in every Masjid (Mosque), who would be entitled to all those emoluments & perks what are given to doctors, engineers etc. And education ministry must be declared as a federal subject instead of provincial.
To cater for experience hands & brains in the parliament 50 % t seats must be reserved for various high qualified technocrats at federal level as well as provincial level and they should also be elected through direct vote system.
To eliminate political oriented resistance against mega dam projects or exploration parliamentary committee comprised of equal number of technocrats representing all the 22 provinces to be may be formed and may be given the task to meet the objections if any and resolve them on merit.
To do away with the bulk of the corruption capital punishment is a must to be provided in the relevant law against corruption.
The last but not the least, the population explosion is no less in horror & terror than the ‘national suicidal explosion’. So this threat must be considered another prime monster after the terrorism in the country, known as Pakistan.
Aftab Alam Advocate, (High Court) Swat, KPK Pakistan
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