LAHORE: The current Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker, Dost Muhammad Mazari, is not the first presiding officer in the country’s legislative history who has been physically manhandled by a rowdy.
A system for all
July 20, 2021
Not many know of what happened on September 23, 1958 in the East Pakistan assembly when a hurled paper weight hit the then deputy speaker Shahed Ali Patwary who passed away after two days.
Not all will remember what happened during the speech of the opposition leader during the budget session on June 15, 2021. For those who know and for all those who will remember, this is reminiscent of a forgotten past. This all has an aura of familiarity, as if we are trapped in an infinite loop and living the same day over and over where we always end up with stolen elections and epochs of centralized governments. Where we are always left at the mercy of self-endorsed messiahs roaring against elected political leadership and grabbing more and more power every day by holding referendums to re-elect themselves, bulldozing legislations through controlled rubber-stamp parliaments and stripping away constitutional safeguards in the name of strengthening the federati