Dire Straits

Byline: Arif Niza The doomsday pundits and naysayers predicting the imminent demise of the government at the hands of an obdurate apex court were sadly disappointed. According to puritan jurists like Justice (retd) Wajihuddin, it was the Supreme Court that blinked first by giving a way out to the government. The fact of the matter is that with no Bonapartist generals on call, the judiciary was not in a mood to rock the system at its own peril.