 In Pakistan, the Sindh High Court declared former President General Pervez Musharraf ineligible for Parliament membership. A three member bench led by Chief Justice Maqbool Baqir said yesterday that Musharraf does not meet the criteria set in Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution. The bench further said that decisions taken by Musharraf led to Pakistan’s image being hurt. The detail verdict has been released by the court. Election officials have barred him from running for the National Assembly, effectively derailing his attempts to regain a place in politics by standing at the polls. Musharraf had returned to Pakistan in March 2013 after nearly four years of self imposed exile to contest the May 11th general election. |
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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