1973 Constitution and Pakistan

1973 constitution is (was) a sacred national document, which could only be amended by the parliament under a defined procedue! Any deviation from this was a huge mistake, which was to adversely affect the nation as was proved by the later events. The constitution is the very legitimacy of the state; otherwise, it becomes a mob which is only held together by the force - which is the least desired phase in the life of the nations - because it compromises the future of the country, and unnecesarily generates tensions within the nation - which may not lend to the resolution easily in the future.

All the challenges faced by nationafter 1973  were to be resolved through the mechanisms contained in the constittution; and, if some issues could not be addressed by the constittution, these were to be potponed, till the party in power had acheived necessary strength in the parliament to amend the constitution. There was no need to bulldoze the document, because that meant bulldozingthe nation - and all the ills that it entailed in the future!

If we go backto the start, we took all the time to produce the first genuine constitution in 1973, till then the country had already broken apart! We held first free and fair Eelections after 23 years, which led to the results, which broke the country! Before that many free and fair electiins could have been held in the country, which could have estabished stakes of Bengalis into the system, so that they did not have any reason to look out of Pakistan, later! But this route was not chosen by the then rulers, even they did not have the required national mandate not to do so!

 We continue to repeat the same mistakes by way of not establishing the stakes of the smaller provinces into the country, which could pre-empt any centrufugal tendecies in the smaler provinces, both today and tomorrwo. We fail to distrubute the power and resources satisfactorily and equitably among the provinces, creating unnecessary resentment, without addressing which, we can not lay down the poltical basis for sustained, high gowth of the economy! 18th amendment, instead of taking it as a God - send has been subjected to ruthless examination, which was not needed.

As a result of above, the fruits of development have not been distributed evenly across the country, without addressing which, neither can we addrss the challenges of the nation building, nor can we lay down the strutural basis of sustained high growth of the economy . Without addressing the issues and challenges mentioned above, we will not be able to overcome the enemies for which we won independence from the British and Hindus in the first place! Those enemies of Pakistan are: poverty, hunger, malnutrition, disease and ignorance, who will continue to make the  mockery of the independence!