Below is a transcript of the letter sent to PTI, JI & Geo TV on 6th November 2007.
I plead to every pakistani and everyone who wants to see this country survive join the struggle to rid our judiciary from bias and influence and restore credibility in this institution. Anyway you can at least register your protest, it all counts - its only collectively that we can make a difference:
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In the name of Allah the most Merciful & Gracious
We have no time to stand still, we have no time to rationalise, we have no time for self pity and we have no time left even for crying over our pathetic existence. The time is for action – action that is decisive, action that is unambiguous and action that does indeed speak a thousand words.
For too long in this nations’ history we have talked the talk now it’s time to walk the walk. How can any Pakistani sleep easily tonight or for any night for the rest of their lives when we are given reminder after reminder, chance after chance to mend our ways and yet we let them pass away as if they had never existed. Whether it’s Dr Khan or Justice Chaudhary and his heroic comrades we seem to have fallen into a habit of not only neglecting but humiliating our heroes.
Are we truly so powerless, so oblivious, so emotionless, so void of any national feeling that nothing moves us now. We suspect everything and everyone – maybe we have been stung for far too long by looters and plunderers – maybe I was the same as everyone else until this afternoon. Until this afternoon I was relatively cushioned from all the upheaval back home sitting comfortably in my centrally heated living room doing my bit for the nation by hurling the occasional abuse at random politicians and government functionaries.
However, I cannot sit quietly anymore I cannot let this happen without raising a voice of protest and if necessary a fist against a tyrant – it’s all coming back to me now - isn’t this the elevated form of jihad? Life was comfortable until this afternoon – until I saw a middle aged man helplessly crying – I thought it was just another white collar family man overcome with emotion over the recent price hike. This was cause for concern enough but I have no words to describe my utter disgust after learning it was no other than Justice Sharif. Justice Sharif who probably had a better than fair chance to be a Supreme Court judge had he bowed to the new orders.
Have we truly become so shameless that we can let this happen to anyone - let alone to an exalted judge? Why are we even looking forward to the elections anyway? To elect some or all of these known cronies, criminals, looters and plunderers? I assume there are some honest people in government or at least hope so and apologise for tarnishing them with the same brush.
Forget election, forget imprisonments, even forget media for now all of us need to do everything we possibly can in our powers no matter how little, no matter how insignificant to demand the restoration of the judiciary to the state it was in immediately prior to the proclamation of emergency.
We can choose to do nothing, we can choose to ignore, we can choose to pretend, we can choose to be moderate but if we do our very freedom of choice is at stake. We simply cannot let this happen.
I therefore ask you to continue to be honest about describing the magnitude of what the judges have achieved for this nation and raise the morale of the nation but more importantly jolt them out of this sedation, this sleep of oblivion. Nations face many cross roads during their lifetime and by God this is one heck of a cross road. Take the right turn and we may just earn ourselves the right to exist otherwise paraphrasing Iqbal – weakness is a crime and the punishment is elimination!
Long Live Pakistan
May God have mercy on us allSigned
Omar Qayyum Chaudry Pakistani
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I agree.. This is truly disgusting... a nation is doomed when they stop respecting, let alone stop respecting their judiciary - the one of many jolts was when Dr Khan apologised to the nation - for what? now our judges and chies justices are sitting helpless in their homes or behind bars - for what? men and women in their black jackets protesting to reclaim the respect that they deserve - only because one man couldnt stand to be accountable.
I also agree, to dismiss the rule of law is worrying step towards anarchy.
In the name of Allah, the most Merciful and Gracious.
I think hardly anyone would disagree with what has described over here given the fact if you have a strong roots and feelings about your beloved country, does not matter which country you belong and wherever you live in this planet but the questions here is how the fate of our beloved nation can be changed?
Its very easy to say that judiciary should be reinstated, Tyranny and Martial law must end, Judiciary must be independent and we should get rid of all corrupt politicians and people and there should be rule of law otherwise we would head towards anarchy.
We are saying all these things sitting on comfy sofas with stretched legs on our desktop and a laptop on our thighs… I can bring another 100 problems on table and I have no doubt that you people can bring the same as well but the thing is we would always be runners up (The First Losers) in any case. To be a Winner we have to have a solution of the problem as well.
We should all be thankful to Almighty Allah that HE blessed all of us with the knowledge and make us able to think what is good and what is bad for us.
What about the other 78 % of illiterate nation who ain’t got any sense even to think what is good and what is bad for them still they do what they were told to do either by the TRIBAL LORD(s) or by the Chaudry(s) of a Village. We need to use our resources as much as God Almighty has given us to educate people, the 78% of the nation who will contribute more towards the making of a strong and proud nation. That would be my nation, your nation and our nation --- Pakistan.
There are 101 ways to bring the awareness of education in the community, I know one of them and there are still 100 left for you to choose…..
I pray to Allah, that He make us strong, give us courage and vision to make this nation a proud nation.
Lets rise together and spread education and the revolution of self rights awareness.
Long live Pakistan.
Thanks Qasim et al,
One of me senior colleagues at work used to say if you are not part of the solution you must be part of the problem! It is of course easier to be a thinker than a doer
Needless to say education is the catalyst for any nation's self respect, durability and longevity.
I would however say knowledge is the superior aspiration since knowledge is the true enlightenment otherwise we are just information postmen and women who will be just as directionless as we are now.
Of course any education is better than no education at all but what’s important is to kindle the spirit of self determination and righteousness. The trouble with our nation/crowd at present is that nothing moves us anymore.
Of course one can come up with many reasons for this state and one can be the lack of effective vision and leadership in the political and social ranks.
A nation can still survive and do well with a few great minds so long as they are sincere with the greater cause of the nation and they were in a position of some power to effect change. Unfortunately at present we have some issues on both fronts but fortunately none of these are insurmountable problems.
Enough of us need to feel a sense of belonging to our country and not to our families, clans, provinces or be slaves to our traditions. In another post I mentioned the ‘group feeling’ factor missing from Pakistani nation as a whole. There are of course reasons for this lack of group national feeling the most pertinent being the fact that being a Pakistani meant nothing 60 years ago so this collective feeling will take some while to set in and find roots in our new generation.
The proliferation of globalisation is also responsible for the lack of national feeling all over the world. It seems in the west the nationalist movement is dying its natural death. At this time of rapid change around us the only way to survive is be adaptable and the nation to have the acumen to respond to changes as they happen all around us.
Kind Regards
Omar
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