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27th Amendment to the Constitution is in progress. What exactly is a constitution of a state? The answer is, 'Constitution of a state describes how and to what extent the citizens are to be suppressed.'
Dastoor
Dastoor kya hai? aik khilona hai! toṛ do!
Tukṛe bagharaz-e lazzat-e nafsāni joṛ do!
Yeh kya ke ab bhi jaan balab hai yeh nā-tawān?
Muṭṭhi mein bhar ke bāqi lahoo bhi nichoṛ do!
Rakhte ho jab sarisht-e sibā‘ o baheem tum!
‘Azm-e ramīm is ki sarāsar bhambhoṛ do!
Zor āwaron ko khil‘at o jāgeer ho ‘aṭā
Be-kas pe, be-nawā pe sarāheen choṛ do!
Ammār-e jaish o ātishi ho jā’en sab ghani
Munh sāre khazānon ke bas ik samt moṛ do!
Hasharāt-e arz rāh mein ḥā’il bhi hain to kya?
Sartāb o kheera sar ki to gardan maroṛ do!
Sarson hi phool pā’e na ward o saman khilen
Har shākh-e gulistān ke muqaddar hi phoṛ do!
Nauk-e qalam fasān pe rakh ke zara Aqeel!
Qalb o nazar ko ahl-e qalam ke jhanjhoṛ do!
दस्तूर
दस्तूर क्या है? एक खिलौना है! तोड़ दो!
टुकड़े बग़रज़-ए लज़्ज़त-ए नफ़्सानी जोड़ दो!
ये क्या कि अब भी जान-ब-लब है ये नातवाँ?
मुट्ठी में भर के बाक़ी लहू भी निचोड़ दो!
रखते हो जब सरीश्त-ए सिबा' ओ बह़ीम तुम!
अज़्म-ए रमीम इसकी सरासर भंभोड़ दो!
ज़ोर आवरौं को ख़िलअत ओ जागीर हो अता
बे-कस पे, बे-नवा पे सराहीं छोड़ दो!
अम्मार-ए जैश ओ आतिशी हो जाएँ सब ग़नी
मुख सारे ख़ज़ानों के बस इक سمت मोड़ दो!
हशरात-ए अर्ज़ राह में हाइल भी हैं तो क्या?
सरताब ओ ख़ीरा सर की तो गर्दन मरोड़ दो!
सरसों ही फूल पाए न वर्द ओ समन खिलें
हर शाख़-ए गुलिस्ताँ के मुक़द्दर ही फोड़ दो!
नोक-ए क़लम फ़साँ पे रख के ज़रा अकील!
क़ल्ब ओ नज़र को अहल-ए क़लम के झँझोड़ दो!
sikander aqeel ansari
Neo-Fascism within a Democratic Façade
Modern authoritarian regimes rarely announce their tyranny; they arrive dressed in constitutional attire. The amendments and “legal reforms”— expanding military privileges, curtailing judicial autonomy, and centralizing fiscal control — mirror what scholars call neo-fascist adaptations of democracy.
1. Constitutional Manipulation as Legalized Tyranny
In classical fascism, the constitution was openly abolished. In neo-fascism, it is hollowed from within. Laws are rewritten not to violate legality, but to weaponize legality. As Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist, argued in Political Theology (1922), “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.” Neo-fascist systems institutionalize this principle — granting the executive or military the permanent right to act “beyond” the law while claiming to protect it.
2. Militarization of the State
The military’s constitutional entrenchment — with lifetime privileges, control of budgets, and influence over the judiciary — transforms the army from a state institution into the state itself. Umberto Eco listed “the cult of heroism and death” as a sign of Ur-Fascism; when the armed institution becomes the moral and political core of governance, civilian supremacy dies in uniformed ceremony.
3. Erosion of Judicial Independence
When the judiciary loses suo motu powers, merit in appointments, and the right to interpret the constitution freely, the last barrier to total power collapses. Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, noted that fascism begins “when law becomes not a restraint upon rulers, but their instrument.” The new “special constitutional courts” echo this — designed to legalize command rather than interpret justice.
4. Centralization and Economic Control
Reducing provincial revenue shares to strengthen federal and military funds reflects fascism’s corporatist economy — a structure in which state and elite interests fuse. As Antonio Gramsci observed, fascism consolidates power by merging coercion with consent: fiscal centralization ensures both.
5. Symbolic Nationalism and Manufactured Unity
Every authoritarian order invokes “national stability” and “security” to justify the silencing of dissent. This echoes Roger Griffin’s idea of palingenetic nationalism — the myth of rebirth through submission. Under such a myth, patriotism becomes obedience, and questioning power becomes treason.
6. The Death of Democratic Spirit
Neo-fascism thrives not by abolishing elections, but by rendering them meaningless — when the system itself pre-decides outcomes. Public institutions continue to exist but are emptied of independence. It is democracy in form, dictatorship in function.
In essence, neo-fascism redefines tyranny as order, propaganda as patriotism, and legality as virtue. It is a subtler, more sophisticated evil than its 20th-century ancestor — an evil that wears a judge’s robe, quotes the constitution, and salutes under the flag it quietly defiles.
It survives not by the sword alone, but by making injustice appear lawful, and by turning the constitution — once a covenant of liberty — into an instrument of obedience.