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Where does our recent history stand on delivering justice to Pakistani people?
Laws catch flies but let hornets go free – A Scottish proverb
There are piles of records in world history that manifests this proverb. Pakistan is no better. We have a highly dis-coordinated working system in which mechanized corruption systematically progresses; and those who dissent, are snubbed or sidelined by the state.
Our respectable judicial system has always been under political pressure which halts the functioning and procedures to fair trail and often makes the judgments politically objectionable. This political pressure and monopoly of elites ensures that the system acquits the big-wigs under the cover of law.
We don’t have to go very far to see the lacunae; Ayan Ali, Dr. Asim Hussain, Model Town case and still in process the Panama papers case. Two of these cases have been concluded, one awaits justice and the fourth has been delayed to nowhere.
It was a dramatic coincidence that the investigation officer who was probing into Ayan Ali’s case got killed during the early stages of the trial, but no outrage and no investigation has yet been made in that regard. After enjoying month’s long protocol, Ayyan Ali was finally set free on bail from prison after four months and finally, she was let scot free earlier this year. She was allegedly involved in money laundering, caught by Airport security officers at Benazir International Airport on March 14, 2015 carrying $506,800.
read full story: Where does our recent history stand on delivering justice to Pakistani people ?
Laws catch flies but let hornets go free – A Scottish proverb
There are piles of records in world history that manifests this proverb. Pakistan is no better. We have a highly dis-coordinated working system in which mechanized corruption systematically progresses; and those who dissent, are snubbed or sidelined by the state.
Our respectable judicial system has always been under political pressure which halts the functioning and procedures to fair trail and often makes the judgments politically objectionable. This political pressure and monopoly of elites ensures that the system acquits the big-wigs under the cover of law.
We don’t have to go very far to see the lacunae; Ayan Ali, Dr. Asim Hussain, Model Town case and still in process the Panama papers case. Two of these cases have been concluded, one awaits justice and the fourth has been delayed to nowhere.
It was a dramatic coincidence that the investigation officer who was probing into Ayan Ali’s case got killed during the early stages of the trial, but no outrage and no investigation has yet been made in that regard. After enjoying month’s long protocol, Ayyan Ali was finally set free on bail from prison after four months and finally, she was let scot free earlier this year. She was allegedly involved in money laundering, caught by Airport security officers at Benazir International Airport on March 14, 2015 carrying $506,800.
read full story: Where does our recent history stand on delivering justice to Pakistani people ?