Have you ever witnessed a lawyer struggling against the heat wave and humidity with this uniform? Just imagine putting yourself there with the same uniform in the same months of June to September and you will be short of breathing.
Being the part of this legal fraternity I often wonder are we that gone to make a season friendly uniform that suits the hot climate of Pakistan.
The baggage of the British colonialism has literally crushed our body and has actually eviscerated our soul. The uniform we are addicted to is not only a violation of Human Rights; it is also as someone has imposed a punishment in perpetuity for a crime we have never committed.
Just that the British Colonialism introduced this uniform and we are blindly following our old masters? Does this attitude suite the people of the sovereign state?
How this uniform was introduced there in Uk? Historians say that at the Death of queen Merry all the lawyers and judges were ordered by the King Willaim to wear black as a sign of mourning. As the order was never revoked by the King the black dress was never put aside. The Queen was died in December but she was buried in March. The whole period was the period of mourning.
What we are supposed to do by the way? Are we mourning the death of Queen here in Islamabad in June and July? Does it make sense?
Leave aside the historical background and just come to the suitability of this dress in our climate. We can after all change the dress code and we are supposed to get permission from the King.
Our laws are outdated around one and half century old. We have inherited this legal system from the British colonialism. Ever decades of the independence e are still carrying this baggage with all of our dedication.
In our childhood we have all heard the story of the strange people who loved the chains and were addicted to be held as slaves of the powerful.
After witnessing our own culture I find myself grappled with this troubling question: Are we the people who love the chains?
