(g) the country is paying a heavy economic price for its atomic program.
This interview was recorded in 2009 by Dawn.
Asghar Khan, is a Pakistani veteran aviation historian, peace activist, and retired military figure— a three-star rank air marshal— who served as the first native Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) from 1957 until resigning in 1965 prior to the start of the air operations of the PAF during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
جو لوگ مارشل لا کی حمائیت کر رہے ہیں ان کی لیے میرا بس یہی جواب ہے کہ اگر آپ کی اپنے والد سے نہیں بنتی تو کیا آپ اپنے والد کو گھر سے نکال کر چوکیدار کو ابو ابو کہنا شروع کر دو گے
A ‘for sale’ judiciary that gives verdicts according to leadership’s will
A neutral establishment and a functioning judiciary pinch you where it hurts most. Indiscriminate application of laws – anchored in the Constitution – is absolutely essential if Pakistan has to extricate itself from the vicious cycle of misgovernance and selective application of laws. The current socio-political and economic crisis also stems from willful deviation from the law by civilian and military elites. All these years, we have only managed the country, and not really governed, and we all contributed to it.
