Constitutionalism: 49 years later
The dearth of democrats is probably the single largest problem our country is facing but unfortunately we are not even looking at it as a problem. As the Pakistan day approaches the country's increasing de-politicization and indifference bears witness to the history of constitutionalism. 23rd March is celebrated as Pakistan Day and commemorated as a day when in 1940, by the Lahore Declaration the Muslim League decided to pursue a policy of getting separate homeland(s) for the Muslims of South Asia. Although this dream turned to reality in about 7 year, but it took another 9 years to come up with a constitution. It's unknown (at least to me or majority of the nation) why they chose 23rd March to promulgate the first constitution of this country. I hope that at that time they did not know it was the first constitution of Pakistan. The constituent assembly after a roller coaster rides and near fatal dissolutions came up with a constitution of Pakistan. The constitution came into ...