Published on, Sept. 5 -- September 5, 2025 3:36 AM

Supreme Court Justice Athar Minallah on Thursday said that the talk of a "hybrid system" prevalent in the country actually amounted to an admission to the presence of a dictatorship.

Addressing the Karachi Bar Association (KBA), Justice Minallah said: "It is something to accept that people today say there is a hybrid system, that [actually] means there is dictatorship and there is no constitutional governance."

He blamed what he said was the "lack of constitutional governance" in the country that was responsible for elite capture over the rule of law or the Constitution.

"I had to write in many high court orders that there is no rule of law or Constitution in the country; there is eli...