In other words, before any democracy or constitutionalism or fundamental rights, there must be order based on obedience to state authority derived from its monopoly over violence. Leviathan strikes back: Faced with the English Civil War in the 17th century, Thomas Hobbes, through his classical text Leviathan, responded with a simple theory of governance - only a strong state can save us from anarchy and violence. Who is right in this battle between state survival and democratic constitutionalism? On the other hand, despite its authoritarian politics and past collusion with the establishment, the PTI has, paradoxically, now become the torch-bearer of fundamental rights, anti-establishment democratic constitutionalism and press freedom. Therefore, on the one hand, the ruling coalition government and the state institutions have either justified, or kept silent, about the grave violations of fundamental rights, defiance of superior courts orders, subversion of democratic constitutionalism and repression of a free media in their quest to dismantle the PTI, on the pretext of safeguarding the state. For the PTI, it was a conspiracy to dismantle it. For PDM and its aligned parties, it was proof that the PTI is not a democratic political party.
For the establishment, it was an attack on the state. THE political violence witnessed from May 9 to May 11, 2023, is a subject of much controversy.
“They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness”.
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