What is constitution? a book written by politicians
Pakistanis don't care about this book and love army
You are symptom of a disease which has been spread by opinion-makers to serve interests of Martial-Law regimes.
Spreading of such thought occurs only when educated people knowingly & willfully sell their souls to serve unholy goals for personal favors & titles. Any opposition to such goals is termed treason, while in reality these are self-serving and not in national interest. The whole of Musharraf regime is a case in point.
Eh Pai je tuhadi national interest di maan pehn.
What safety do you have when 'they' come for you or your loved ones, and your connections refuse to help or would not pick up that panic phone call of yours? Don't tell me that nobody would mess with you because you are a patriotic & honorable person. That would be BS and ignorance. Perhaps you live in a good house that someone else lusts after? Perhaps someone fancies any of your female loved-ones? Perhaps you associate with someone or some cause that brings you unwanted attention? There could be a number of reasons, but the result could be that you get targeted.
True story: In 2011 I was flabbergasted at a police raid that happened at my home. My visiting US-based brother & I were picked up, blind-folded, & taken to a safe-house (Lawrence View hotel, actually - the then SHO Civil Lines Lahore was not very smart). Police had taken the precautionary measure of aerial firing before driving off from my home, just in case they had to kill either or both of us in a staged encounter later. I was deemed relatively harmless while my brother got a lot of attention & was seriously interrogated for a couple of hours. While this happened, my seriously ill father & one of my sisters who was also visiting from USA frantically tried to gather information, make sense of what was happening, & contact anybody who could help (a politician stepped in, the sort who could help write constitution). After a couple of hours of uncertainty, we were located at Civil Lines Police Station. By that time the SHO had realized what had happened. We had been framed by someone who wanted my brother dead & gone. The SHO had been told that a dangerous foreign-based target killer was in Lahore (my brother) and that he would get a lot of praise for apprehending a serial killer. The most dangerous moment was when the adventurous Sub Inspector (not in uniform, mind you) barged in to arrest my brother, who luckily did not reach out for his gun. Any move viewed as threatening could have resulted in death. The police would have easily given it any twist later. Note that there were no pending cases between us and anyone else. There was absolutely no reason for police to make the illegal raid. It was a matter of violation of our constitutional rights. The apology from SHO and Sub-Inspector did not make us feel any less violated. This could happen to anyone, even perhaps a security-obsessed keyboard warrior like you.
If you deconstruct the true narration that I have provided, you would realize that no connection, no phone call, no good intention, no title could have helped my middle class family. The crucial point that could have resulted in serious harm or even death occurred within a minute of the illegal raid. That fact that things did not escalate was fortuitous.
The lesson, and bottom-line is that those who view things from a security perspective and have no respect for Constitution & rights, must be made answerable. Power does not wish to be controlled. It must be made accountable and the accountability is only possible in a constitutional framework. I should mention here that as I sat in SHO's office and chatted as though nothing had happened, I was able to confirm that his mind-set (despite a Master's degree) was anti-constitution. He frankly said that in Muslim history the head of army made & ran the government. This is negation of all that under-writes & supports modern life. It meant that the people are subjects (slaves actually), & the sultan is above the law. What do you imagine I thought of all his education? The same as what I think of your education - incomplete & faulty (naqis aur ghair-mukammil).
You & I need protection of rights (life, liberty, property, expression, association, assembly, etc...) and Constitution guarantees those to us by ensuring the trichotomy of powers and accountability of executive branch of government. As far as I am concerned, people who scoff at Constitution are ill-read, ill-reared, & ill-intentioned fools, for only a fool would cut the branch that supports his / her weight.
In the end, the strength of a nation is in its institutions & productivity of its people. The only way to achieve this is to provide good education & invest in people's development via social investment. Education should teach the importance of institutions (In any US university taking political science course is mandatory). Social investment (health, vocational training, infrastructure) improves productivity. Instead of doing this sensibly, Pakistan invests in security and gets ill-educated freaks & insecurity as a result. You could actually make a state very strong, only to see the nation become weak.
Fin.
