The 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 appex seat of justice.

 

Anyway, any decision once given is a public document. Public have all the rights to discuss all the pros and cons of a decision according to merit of the case. This decision should, rather must, be brought to intense public scrutiny. More and 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, public are all alive on such issues, and they are no more ready to take such seemingly unacceptable decisions lying down.

 

I hope, the media would rise above all divides and considerations, and show path to the civil society why and how such decisions should not go without intense public scrutiny. There would, of course, be allegations of "media trial". But may this be known by all concerns by the affected concerns that, there is nothing called media trial. It is just a ploy, like the much mis-used "contempt of court" thing, to keep the people at bay, and also uninformed.