Author: Dr. Farooq Hassan*

In the US right now an acute debate with single focused and one sided objective is going on about how to ensure that the president is ‘persuaded’ to have the forthcoming election fundamentally free from his personal grasp and junta’s influence. This is on account of the fact that without a single exception a very major newspaper predicts that such rigging will be in evidence and indeed inevitable! This one sided public outcry has produced a spate of seminars, public addresses and also testimony in the congress, that such an eventuality is certain to create a havoc in the public trust in institutions of political change in that country.

There is a total crackdown on the press and lawyers and the activist members of the civil society. The chief justice continues to be under house arrest. The president of the Supreme Court Bar and two former presidents continue to be imprisoned since November 3. There are scores of other political leaders who have also been arrested. Such clamp down on the press and the judiciary is to curb terrorism? Actually those who have been arrested are progressive, secular minded people and law-abiding citizens.

I have addressed several important seminars myself. The major was at Harvard a couple of weeks ago when I to spoke to about a hundred professors of university faculties and distinguished diplomats in this country. Then, this week in Washington, I addressed this topic at the most exclusive and prestigious American Society of International Law. The lawyers’ and judges audience was appalled at the idea of how it is possible that a person himself can condone or validate his wrong doings against the constitution.

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Dr. Farooq Hassan, D.Phil.;
BA (Juris),MA,M. LiTT (OXON);
DCL (Columbia),DIA(Harvard);
Sen.Adv.Sup.Ct. (Pakistan),
Barrister at Law (UK),Attorney at Law(US).

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