KARACHI: Former president and Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said it was a grim thought on this Pakistan Day that the nation was surrendering judicial space to the military courts because of the breakdown of criminal justice system. “Let us therefore pledge on this occasion to fix the criminal justice system at the earliest.” The former president, in his message on the eve of 77th Pakistan Day, urged the people to rededicate themselves to the ideology of democracy, rule of law and welfare of the people,and principles that lay at the heart of the demand for Pakistan. “The August 11, 1947 speech of the Quaid before the Constituent Assembly is the guiding principle of the state,” Zardari asserted. He said the biggest threat to the countrywas posed by the extremists who exploit the name of religion to impose their obscurantist, regressive,and anti-women agenda on the people. “We pledge to fight them to the finish,”he concluded.