CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: On October 20, both Houses of Pakistan’s Parliament passed a bill by a two-third majority making several amendments to the country’s Constitution. After the President’s signature, this Constitution will stand amended.
The aim of the bill is to totally emasculate Pakistan’s judiciary, the last bastion standing against imposition of fascism in Pakistan and depriving the people of all rights and liberties, by divesting the judiciary of its independence.
This reminds one of the Enabling Act passed by the German Reichstag on March 23, 1933, which enabled Hitler, who had become Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, to pass decrees inconsistent with the Weimar Constitution, and this was used by Hitler to impose a fascist dictatorship in Germany.
As in the case of the Enabling Act in Germany, these Constitutional amendments in Pakistan have been passed by carefully planned, skullduggery, chicanery, and swindle.
In order to obtain the Enabling Act’s passage, the Nazis implemented a strategy of coercion, bribery, and manipulation. Members of the Reichstag voted in an atmosphere of extreme intimidation by the Nazi stormtroopers, the S.A., the Communist members having been earlier arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp, their party being blamed for the Reichstag fire.
Similarly, in order to obtain the passing of the Constitutional amendments in Pakistan, the Establishment resorted to ingenious trickery, bamboozle, and flimflam. Since they did not have the numbers to get a two-third majority in either House of Parliament, they had to make some members belonging to Imran Khan’s PTI to defect, and vote in favour of the bill.
