I believe that the debate on the Jirga system vs. the State
Legislature is an omnipresent debate, which will go on for decades if a sturdy
and proper intervention isn’t done to solve the issues that are causing the
friction leading to chaos in the law and order of our state.
In class today, a lot of my fellow students who were supporting
the Jirga system in the KPK region said that the complain of the people there
is that the justice system does not reach the remote areas of KPK because of
which they have to turn to the local jirgas to solve their issues. While I
agree that the justice system does face a lot of hindrance reaching those
areas, I feel that the people instill within their children from the start and
you can say they brain wash them against the justice system of the state and
the people there from the start are operantly conditioned against the justice
system of our state. If this practice carries on, even if our state’s justice
system starts providing better justice in those areas, people will still be
against it due to the immense conditioning against it.
Similarly. I agree with the claims of people that the
justice system of our state is hardly present in the remote areas of KPK, I
feel our government should take extra pre caution and give extra importance to
reach out to these areas and show that our state is willing and is able to
provide proper justice to the people.
One of the topics, which keeps me most averse against the
Jirga system personally, is their handling of women. Honor killing, Karo Kaari
and all these practices are nothing but irrational and extremely harsh. Women
should not only be given equal justice as men are given, but I feel they should
also be given a voice to give their opinion, which these Jirgas completely
suffocate.
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Just to add on, the loophole is not present in the constitution itself but rather in the practitioners of this constitution, that is the government, one after another, it fails to satisfy the justice and fairness needed by the people of Pakistan leading to various biased jirgas based on different sub cultures of Pakistan.
But if the state's authority does not reach into these areas, is it better to have a flawed jirga-based judicial system or no justice system at all?
Why should we give up on the idea of state's authority reaching those areas? We should give priority to this thought. If and how this will happen is the question of the hour.
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