Articles of the year 2015
Published on November 12th 2015
Having pondered deeply the many problems facing Pakistan, I suggest the only way to resolve all these problems is to punish the leader with the most heinous deaths for crimes against the State, something like being hung drawn and quartered while still alive. This is the manner in which the law was enforced in the olden days, and by the British the punishment was not quite as revolting, but equally frightening. In this manner Changez Khan had his laws obeyed throughout the largest kingdom in the world. Similarly, all punishments have a basic lesson for all lawbreakers–Fear, of a most ferocious punishment. A lesson adopted by the MQM, with the best results in the obedience factor.
Pakistan is a failed State, simply because no one is punished. The time spent by Zardari in jail had his wife being allowed conjugal visits, and visits from girlfriends and mistresses as well. The jails, were well appointed resorts. Even now Dr Asim is being kept in relative comfort. Perhaps the seriousness of the authorities could be displayed by applying the Jail manual in all its reality. This first step will bring results that will be a better deterrence than any martial law. Martial law itself is feared because in its first application all are treated with equal severity, and there is no safarish.
If the punishment is severe enough, there will be nobody to obey illegal orders, and the Minister will find himself being arrested by his own subordinates. This has applied in every political system. Changez Khan, the communist regimes, the Nazis, and the British. All these political systems had very cruel methods to implement their justice. It is when the implementation of the law is not carried out that Society, crumbles, and the Nation fails. And so it should start at the top, and one will be surprised at the speed with which the law will be obeyed.