CJP Restored!

There can be opinions on whether CJP is political or not, how much judiciary will get independent because of restoration of a single guy, and one can have own view of CJP’s past court verdicts however putting these opinions aside, what about these ideas stemming out of this movement.

 -          This movement was truly ‘national’ in nature and whole nation own it. Firstly, CJP himself hails from Punjab but resided in Baluchistan during his professional career and actually joined Supreme Court from quota of Baluchistan. Movement for his restoration started from Sukkur, Sindh and people from NWFP and even Azad Kashmir fully supported him. Then consider the fact that nationalistic parties who even shy away from national elections at times, fully supported him which is a sign of their confidence on federation of Pakistan. Also just when march was moving from Lahore to Islamabad, simultaneously another long procession was carried out for CJP restoration far from the rest of Pakistan, deep on the other end near border of Iran, in Gawadar! and finally not to forget the fact that whole nation is jubilant and dancing on decision of CJP’s restoration. So the generation I belong to, who used to hear stories of movement against Ayub Khan in late 60s and then for Nizam-e-Mustafa (peace be upon him) in late 70s, experienced firsthand and saw from our own eyes what awami-tehrik (public movement) actually mean and how it really can change the world.

 -          We always complain, criticize, whine about low literacy rate, people being subdued to feudal lords, lack of real ‘leaders’ in Pakistan and yet this nation sometime surprise everyone. This nation which keeps fighting on tiny miny things and is often seem divided along cultural, racist and religious lines sometimes gets united in such high grounds which is even enviable to developed nations. Who can forget the moments of 1965, way we attained nuclear enrichment facility to counter 10x bigger enemy, way ‘tigers’ won the world cup’ 92 and how we responded to October 8 earthquake. And now, when I see people, ordinary people, in colorful dresses depicting different cultures and statuses, all dancing on CJP’s restoration, I wonder why, oh why they are celebrating restoration of a chief of an office where 99.99% of them would never in their lives even access! And then I understand this is because they disliked the way CJP was ousted, it is because, despite prevailing corruption, nation didn’t like much idea of not having rule-of-law, 65-70% population can’t read anything, let aside constitution of Pakistan, but nation respect it; and I think it is a BIG thing, this understanding, attitude and intellectual decision of nation is something we can feel proud of.

 -          I was 1o years old when we won the world cup. I didn’t know Imran Khan much (I was more interested in knowing Haseeb, Ismail, Adeel and bunch of guys with whom I play cricket daily from 4-7) but I remember ammi, abbu talking about our poor show in world cup initially and yet they saying may be Imran will do something in his last show in cricketing arena, and then we beat England (thanks to Almighty for that Duckworth-Lewis method ) and then another team and then another and we are in semis, we beat invincible New Zealanders and here we are in world cup final. I vividly remember Imran’s in-swinging ball on which Ramiz took catch and commentator screaming ‘it’s a catch, Pakistan wins the world cup!’. That moment, those second, that image on TV, I think I can never forget that. I remember next day Dawn’s heading on main page ‘Pakistan rules the world’ and then a caption saying, under photo of team, that whole nation from Kashmir to Gawadar celebrating the victory. There are very few such moments which whole nation cherish, where whole nation danced and took ownership of. Indeed this (CJP restoration) is one such moment, which is GREAT in these despairing times of economic slump and question mark on country’s sovereignty thanks to US drone attacks.

 -          This movement also gave a very positive democratic signal that defies our history. Whenever nation used to get unhappy and disgruntled from democratic government, eyes started looking upto GHQ to take over, not this time! Message was clear in the air that we don’t want army to intervene, rather nation want to have strong judicial system in place that could keep into check everyone. Indeed this is something really positive.

 -          Those who don’t understand (or don’t want to understand, whatever!) power of Khalq-e-Khuda (family of God – the common men) screwed up big time. MQM, Fazl-ur-Rahman and PPP guys need lots of cosmetics to save their face.

 -          No America, No Army, No higher office is stronger than collective decision and collective ego of nation.

 -          Finally Ali, we have got some big good news after long, so lets wrap up this post and celebrate! What about grabbing a Hobnob dark chocolate cake and attacking it all alone!