Daily Times

Sir: Friday’s verdict of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, by majority count, has thrown the whole nation into utter shock. The commonest senses of common people are finding it difficult to gulp the decision handed out by the apex court.

Anyway, any decision once given is a public document. The public has all the rights to discuss the pros and cons of a decision according to the merits of a case. The Supreme Court’s decision should, rather must, be brought to intense public scrutiny. More seminars, symposia and public discussions and media discussions must be held, and newspaper articles must be written on the merits and demerits of the decision, keeping pace with the public interest in the case.
Only such lively and constructive discussions will help the concerned quarters realise that the public is concerned on such issues, and they are no more ready to take such seemingly unacceptable decisions lying down. I hope the media would assist the civil society in proving that decisions made in the public interest do not go without intense public scrutiny.
SYED SAYEF HUSSAIN
Islamabad