The sequence was triggered by the governor-general, a man named Ghulam Muhammad. He was a clever man, a chartered accountant by training, who was named to run the finance ministry. After the death of Jinnah the first PM in 1948, and the assassination of Jinnah’s deputy L.A. Khan in 1951, the Pakistan Muslim League was leaderless and in this space, Muhammad became governor-general.

In 1954, he unlawfully dismissed the Pakistan Constituent Assembly which was taking much longer than India to frame its constitution. Those who were dismissed went to court where it was determined that G. Muhammad’s actions were unlawful. However, he and the new ministers who had taken power with him went into appeal.

Here the Supreme Court backed Muhammad, justifying his illegal action. The judgment reads: "Thus the issue raised refers to the extraordinary powers of the Governor-General during the emergency period and not to powers which vest in the Governor-General during normal times when the vital organ of the Constitution, namely the legislature, is functioning, and the question that we have to consider is whether there is any provision in the Constitution governing such a situation or any other legal principle within, outside or above the Constitution Acts which entitles the Governor-General to act in case of necessity of such a nature.”

Basically, since there was an emergency (and it didn’t matter that the emergency was a creation of the Governor-General), he had to be allowed to do whatever he wanted.



The court added that it "found that the Governor-General's actions prevented the breakdown of the political and constitutional institutions of Pakistan.” And so the court overlooked wrongdoing and justified it.

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Pakistani court’s actions had long term repercussions.

"We brought Mujahideens from all over the world, we trained them and supplied weapons to them. We trained the Taliban, sent them in. They were our heroes. Haqqani was our hero. Osama bin Laden was our hero. Ayman al-Zawahiri was our hero. Then the global environment changed.

The world started viewing things differently. Our heroes were turned into villains."

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If somebody came along, and told me, I didn't live in England anymore, and said I now lived in a new country, called turnip, but just over the road, where the paper shop is, there was a border, and the paper shop wasn't in turnip, it was in beetroot, and that, I couldn't go there, for a paper
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For whatever reason, the western media
either downplays it. Or, simply doesn't report
on the situation at all.

Even if the Pakistan Government wants to take corrective action against their home grown militants it’s near impossible because over the years these militant bodies have developed a network of charities like Islamic schools for the poorest of the poor. The initial donors were the Military who provided basic training, explosives and then paid out based on number of terror attacks. The contract was, in cases where the Mujahedeen(s) were martyred their families would be compensated. For the very poor, Jihad with its insurance was a welcome industry with ‘calculated and favorable risks’.

Yes, but, if we do that, the build a wall brigade, will say we're unpatriotic conspiracy theorists, who wear tin foil hats
And then, we will feel a deep sense of shame, and have to eat a McDonald's Apple pie