15/08/2026
"Why did they [judges] give in? For three human reasons that have nothing to do with law."
"The first is fear: independence has cost judges their careers, their liberty, at times their lives. The second, and the least confessed, is comfort — the office, the title, the house and the car. The third is isolation — the weight of standing alone when colleagues have already found reasons to look away. What resists them is the one thing a law degree does not issue: character."
"Every August, we raise the flag and call ourselves free. But on the first morning of that freedom, in 1947, Faiz, in Subh-i-Azadi, looked at the long-awaited dawn and said it was not the one: ‘yeh daagh daagh ujala, yeh shab-gazida sehar’ — this stained, night-bitten dawn is not the morning we had set out for. Seventy-nine years on, our national day deserves an honest question: did we win a country and quietly postpone its freedom? In 1947, we changed the nationality of our rulers and left the harder task — changing the nature of rule — to a later generation. That is our unfinished independence — still ours to finish."
Read the full opinion: https://www.dawn.com/news/2022714/the-unfinished-independence
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