[DAWN] A SECTION of the legal fraternity in the country is once again demonstrating it has scant respect for the law that is its duty to uphold. On Saturday in Lahore, pandemonium broke out at a convention organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Lahore High Court Bar Association to underscore their demand that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... resign following the Supreme Court verdict in the Panama Papers case. A group of lawyers affiliated with the PML-N barged into the venue and, in an attempt to shut down the event, manhandled the members of their profession already present. They shattered the auditorium’s window panes, occupied the stage, and locked up the president and the secretary of the SCBA in the library of the building. After calm was restored by the anti-riot police force, the host bar associations announced a nationwide campaign against the prime minister if he did not step down by May 27.
Such behaviour in and of itself would be considered thuggish. That it is members of the legal fraternity who have acted in such a manner makes it doubly shocking. If lawyers can engage in disorderly conduct that one associates with disreputable louts, what hope is there of other sections of society engaging in civil discourse? As for those who were the target of last week’s assault, their actions also demonstrate contempt for the law, albeit in a different way. After all, the Supreme Court majority verdict ordered that a JIT be formed to determine the source of the money trail pertaining to the premier’s family as revealed by the Panama Papers; it did not direct the prime minister to resign. The JIT has commenced the task it has been assigned. Why then are certain bar associations insisting on a course of action that the apex court has not ordered? The lawyers may have the right to demand that the prime minister step down, but threatening direction if he does not is unacceptable.
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#1
Something will replace ISIS. The conditions that gave rise to ISIS haven't changed. A swathe of Sunni territory pressured by Shiites from East and West. With enough support from Sunni states to keep going.
I expect what comes next to be more media savvy than ISIS. Facebook vids of rescuing baby ducks should go a long way to getting the West off their backs.
#4
ISIS the (1) Bandit Country in the ME? (2) ISIS the organized paramilitary? (3) ISIS the revolutionary cadre? (4) ISIS the revolutionary Cause?
Probably (1), possibly (2), and the rest... trying 'killing' the Common Cold -- that would be easier.
#5
I suspect Trump and Saudi Arabia discussed this a bit. One main reason the Saudi's have financed ISIS is to provide a Sunni counter to Iranian power in the region.
Trump signing the big weapons deal and talk of an Arabic NATO seems to be an attempt to get Arab nations to take over the counter the Iranians when ISIS is gone.
h/t Donald Sensing
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[DAWN] A SECTION of the legal fraternity in the country is once again demonstrating it has scant respect for the law that is its duty to uphold. On Saturday in Lahore, pandemonium broke out at a convention organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Lahore High Court Bar Association to underscore their demand that Prime Minister 
