The Nation Newspaper Pakistan

The PPP has, it is quite obvious, decided to follow a disastrous path that instead of strengthening the roots of democracy in the country, would do it grievous harm and might incite the very forces whose role in politics is intended to be eliminated for all time to stage a comeback. The party, which heads the federal and Sindh coalition governments and also holds the office of President, has gone all-out to flout the court verdicts that do not fit in with its objectives. The latest is the Supreme Court order holding the appointment of Justice Deedar Hussain Shah as Chairman NAB null and void. Hardly had the news of the verdict and the incumbent’s resignation broken out than sources close to the party gave out that the government had decided, in principle, to reappoint him. Not only that. Sindh’s PPP leader Taj Haider publicly called into question the court decision, made a call for protest rallies across the province against it to be staged on Friday and urged businesses to remain closed and transporters to keep their vehicles off the road. On the other hand, the lawyers, even from Sindh, have averred that they would not accept the PPP’s decision. This has turned the situation into a tinderbox.

The party’s approach, at best evasive, to a string of court decisions since the landmark verdict on the NRO constitutes, undoubtedly, a direct threat to the country’s nascent democracy. But reappointing Justice Deedar and calling for public demonstrations against the verdict is, indeed, very serious. That points to a no-holds-barred stand of confrontation with the apex court that already feels greatly offended at the government’s attitude of prevarication, nay defiance to the verdicts it has given so far. There is need for it to avert the situation from going out of hand. 

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