Longest-Surviving 1973 Constitution
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Longest surviving constitution
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RAWALPINDI: President Nixon’s Special Assistant, Dr Henry Kissinger, who is expected to arrive here on July 8, after a visit to New Delhi, is likely to apprise President Yahya Khan of the US thinking on the situation now prevailing in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. As Special Assistant to President Nixon, Dr Kissinger occupies an important position in the US Administration, and it is expected here that the talks that he will hold with President Yahya Khan and others will be important in the context of Pakistan-US relations. They may be also prove helpful in reducing the present tension in the sub-continent.
Democracy vs rule of law and mutual tolerance
National
(Sitara-e-Shujaat, Nishan-e-Imtiaz)
Democracy becomes non-functional if we do not follow the basic principles dictated by it. Democracy if is not run under the rule of law then, unfortunately, it is worst than dictatorship as the deviation from the rule of law means vesting the entire powers with a single individual, who can use it for his interests fearlessly. This had been the main issue with our Pakistani branded democracy, which always remained under threat within its own created disloyal political fleet within the democratic system. Democracy through the power of vote leads to the democratic system for the government to be run through the rule of law and it all depends on how we develop an honest and transparent democratic system to serve the people and to create fear of law and not to rule the people by undermining their constitutional rights. The public representatives through elections automatically become the masters