Broken record: constitution, commander, curfew.

The issues of Dawn from Sept 1-7, 1947 chronicled the adoption of the Pakistan (Provisional Constitution) Order as the country’s working constitution, while the nation’s first commander-in-chief issued a stern call for order to control communal violence. Moreover, the city of Karachi — which has been no stranger to violence over the decades — saw its first curfew as the capital of Pakistan. Constitutional underpinnings Constitutional tinkering by powerful, often unelected forces has been a sad constant throughout Pakistan’s history. But as the pages of Dawn in the weeks after independence…