Pakistan: Objectives Resolution

The honourable chief justice has also recently stated, “There should be justice in every condition even if the sky falls.” That sky fell on May 28, 2010, over the law-abiding citizens of Pakistan, who are the victims of continuous state-sanctioned persecution since these two laws came into effect. Perhaps, due to a busy schedule, the May 28 incident has gone unnoticed by him.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | Letters
Source & Credit: Daily Times Pakistan
By Mansoor Ishfaq | Los Angeles, USA

Sir: A news item, ‘CJP raps change in Objectives Resolution’ (Daily Times, June 9, 2010), reported that the honourable chief justice of Pakistan had praised parliament for undoing a “wrong done” by the 1985 legislature through a constitutional amendment. He was referring to the removal of the word ‘freely’ from a clause of the Objectives Resolution that upheld the minorities’ right to practice their religion by invoking Article 58(2)(b).

I would like to draw your attention towards the other wrong done via the 1974 Second Amendment, which declares Ahmedis non-Muslim and Ordinance XX in 1984, which strips them of their fundamental rights as Pakistani citizens. The word ‘freely’ just restored through the 18th Amendment does not sit well in the presence of these two laws.


Both of these laws directly conflict with the Holy Quran, which states: “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256), the Constitution of Pakistan’s Article 20 and the international law under the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 55(C).

The honourable chief justice has also recently stated, “There should be justice in every condition even if the sky falls.” That sky fell on May 28, 2010, over the law-abiding citizens of Pakistan, who are the victims of continuous state-sanctioned persecution since these two laws came into effect. Perhaps, due to a busy schedule, the May 28 incident has gone unnoticed by him. Let us not leave any stone unturned and fix all the wrongs done by striking these two laws from the constitution of Pakistan.

MANSOOR ISHFAQ
USA


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