Democracy and lawyers
This is apropos of S.
T. Hussain’s letter ‘Democracy and lawyers’. I take exception to his view that
lawyers “protesting against the government are actually against democracy in
Pakistan.” I don’t know how he reached this conclusion.
In a democratic country,
all people, including lawyers, have the right to protest when they see their
government leaders looting the national exchequer and not doing anything to
solve the problems of the people.
Not only have lawyers
played a leading role in bringing down unpopular governments in the past, but
it was also a lawyer, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who despite massive opposition
created Pakistan.
We should be grateful
that we still have able lawyers who cannot be bought.
SHAKIR LAKHANI
Karachi
Karachi
Published in DAWN, 2nd
July 2012
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