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By Ahmad Nadeem Gehla | July 4, 2010 | Cross-Post
This is with reference to Ijazul Haq’s article “What has ‘freely’ changed?” (July 3). Mr Haq seems to be living in the 70s, as he seems unable to understand the meaning and importance of a simple word like ‘freely’. While defending his father, Mr Haq declared that parliament had tampered with the constitution by inserting the word ‘freely’ in a clause related to the religious rights of minorities.
Only the son of a dictator can term the consensus of parliament as ‘tampering’ while terming the distortions in the constitution introduced by a dictator as ‘amendments’. According to Mr Haq, Gen Ziaul Haq was a “Muslim ruler, a leader and a statesman of standing”.
Mr Haq should go through the 18th Amendment so that he may know that Ziaul Haq’s name has been removed as a ‘ruler’ and his position is now that of a ‘usurper’. After this amendment, at best he can be termed an ‘illegitimate ruler’. I hope Mr Haq would understand what difference the addition of a single word ‘illegitimate’ makes to the credentials of Zia.
Mr Haq has tried to hide Ziaul Haq’s crimes under the curtain of religion by declaring him an ‘Islamic ruler’. As a matter of fact Ziaul Haq was an illegitimate ruler and a hypocrite who used religion as a tool to stay in power. His love for Islam remained limited to recruiting foot soldiers for America’s war against the Soviet Union and promoting hatred and sectarian differences for his lust of power. Certainly, no other person has damaged Islam as much as Zia did. Had Mr Haq watched the bloodbath at Data Darbar by ‘Zia’s children’ on TV screens, he would have chosen a different time to defend the worst enemy of Islam and Pakistan and an illegitimate ruler.
Ahmad Nadeem Gehla
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