Justice Asif Saeed Khosa
Pity the Nation
A Separate Note in Supreme Court Verdict
- Pity the Nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
- Pity the Nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.
- Pity the Nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.
- Pity the Nation that despises a passion in its dream,
- Pity the Nation that raises not its voice, save when it walks in a funeral; boasts not except among its ruins; and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block.
- Pity the Nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.
- Pity the Nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again.
- Pity the Nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle.
- Pity the Nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
Justice Khosa's own additions/adaptations in that judgment
- Pity the Nation that achieves nationhood in the name of a religion but pays little heed to truth, righteousness and accountability which are the essence of every religion.
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