KARACHI: Justice Athar Minallah, while talking to lawyers at KBA Thursday (4th Sept, 2025) here has maintained that hybrid system was a euphemism for dictatorship.
According to him: “It is something to accept that people today say there is a hybrid system, that means there is dictatorship and there is no constitutional governance.…I had to write in many high court orders that there is no rule of law or Constitution in the country; there is elite capture...Unfortunately, we are taught distorted history, and no one tells us the truth. Our generation did whatever it could do; the most we can do now is to hand over the baton to you and at least tell you the truth…
“The societies in which the truth is eliminated and truth ceases to be spoken are destroyed.” According to him the country would not have split if there had not been a clampdown on the freedom of expression: “The root of the country’s split in 1971 was laid down in the dissolution of the constituent assembly by the civil-military bureaucracy…the judiciary has never played the role that it ought to have…We know that fundamental rights are meaningless, there is no freedom of expression, there is a restriction on political thoughts and criticism.”
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