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Article: EDITORIAL: Shared responsibility.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2009
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July 21 (THE NATION): THE remark of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry that the judiciary has been responsible for the failure of democracy in the country is only part of the story. Hearing a petition seeking the regularisation of services of two Sindh High Court Judges at Islamabad on Monday, he asked the judiciary to accept the responsibility. However, the truth about the failure of democracy, as the course of events in Pakistans short history unveils, is that the civil and military bureaucracy as well as politicians somehow conspired at various critical junctures to disrupt the process of its development. It is also unfortunate that the judiciary shied away from ...