Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif | PTI
Yesterday, 20th October, both Houses of Pakistan’s Parliament passed a Bill by a two third majority making several amendments to the Pakistan Constitution.. After the President’s signature thie Constitution will stand amended.
https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/international/2024/10/21/fgn2-pak-politics-bill.html
The aim of the Bill is to totally emasculate Pakistan’s judiciary, the last bastion standing against imposition of fascism in Pakistan and depriving the people of all rights and liberties, by divesting the judiciary of its independence.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1866480
This reminds one of the Enabling Act passed by the German Reichstag on 23rd March 1933, which enabled Hitler, who had become Chancellor of Germany on 30th January 1933, to pass decrees inconsistent with the Weimar Constitution, and this was used by Hitler to impose a fascist dictatorship in Germany.
As in the case of the Enabling Act in Germany, these Constitutional amendments in Pakistan have been passed by carefully planned, skullduggery, chicanery, and swindle.
In order to obtain the Enabling Act’s passage, the Nazis implemented a strategy of coercion, bribery, and manipulation. Members of the Reichstag voted in an atmosphere of extreme intimidation by the Nazi stormtroopers, the S.A., the Communist members having been earlier arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp, their party being blamed for the Reichstag fire.
Similarly, in order to obtain the passing of the Constitutional amendments in Pakistan, the Establishment resorted to ingenious trickery, bamboozle, and flimflam. Since they did not have the numbers to get a two third majority in either House of Parliament, they had to make some members belonging to Imran Khan’s PTI to defect, and vote in favour of the Bill.
There was a judgment of the Pakistan Supreme Court holding that a defector’s vote will not be counted, but this verdict was reversed recently by a bench headed by that toady of the Establishment, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Qazi Faez Isa, to enable the defection.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1862816
MPs belonging to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, the party headed by that unprincipled acrobat and opportunist in Pakistani politics, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, also voted in favour of the Bill.
Two senators from the Baloch National Party ( one being a lady whose husband has been abducted ) also voted in favour of the Bill, contrary to their party’s stand
In this connection I have tweeted :
” Pakistanis, I suggest you take out ‘janaazaas’ ( funeral processions ) from your houses with a box containing a copy of your Constitution, instead of a coffin with a body, and take it to the nearest kabristan ( graveyard ), where you should bury it, saying ‘fatiha’ ( a prayer said at funerals ”.
Dark days are ahead for Pakistan
