Sir: I was recently selected for an internship by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Lahore. As part of my internship, I have been visiting various districts of Punjab where HRCP conducts awareness sessions about human rights. So far, I have visited three districts of Punjab including Faisalabad, Pakpattan and Chiniot, where HRCP conducted awareness sessions entitled “Engaging Citizens in Evaluating the Legislature’s Functions”. Overall, the experience was culturally quite enriching for me since I am from Khyber Pakhthunkhwa, but what I observed in those sessions is that people are hardly aware of anything about the basic concept of law. They do not know how their representatives act on their behalf in parliament. Unfortunately, they have started to believe that there is no solution to their problems through any of the parliamentary law making procedures and think that there is no need to understand it, which was reflected in the comments of some of the participants in the sessions when our HRCP official tried to make their concepts clear about the jargon of law making like Bill, Resolution, Call Attention Notice, etc. The often repeated question by participants in those sessions was why the law was not getting implemented in Pakistan. The conclusion that I derived after attending those sessions is that there is dereliction on the part of both citizens and government towards the social contract that is documented in the form of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Parties to this crime are not only the government but also our citizens, who are ignorant about their rights in law, which gives space to the government to bypass legal ways. Ignorance of the law is no excuse in legal parlance. Where HRCP deserves appreciation for all it has been doing as a non-governmental organisation by creating awareness among the masses and reminding them about their share in the social contract in the constitution, there is a dire need on the part of each citizen to make himself/herself aware about his/her rights, and know all possible legal forums through which he/she can raise voice for rights. We, as citizens, need to own the law through which we are being ruled, and, instead of complaining about non-implementation of the law, work to have it implemented. INAM ULLAH MARWAT Lahore