Senior government functionaries in Pakistan are fond of complaining, in private, that the nation they are serving is averse to following the dictates of law.
The laws are broken by those who made them
Lack of education, lack of discipline and lack of respect for the law are just some of the misdemeanours on the part of a populace that hampers the pace of progress.
It is the incompetence of the bureaucracy, the ignorance of lawmakers, the greed of the military for power and riches - combined with a glaring contempt for the law on the part of all three groups - that has created and then compounded the social anarchy that everyone is now forced to live in.
[Nawaz Sharif] was eager to please the Americans at any cost - in this case the cost was trashing the judicial system of his own country
Law-abiding Pakistanis see the law catching up with its breakers
Three times in the history of this young country, the army chief has led a coup against a civilian government