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" A NATIONAL IMPERATIVE: DISCIPLINE A NATIONAL IMPERATIVE: DISCIPLINE   By   Mr. Justice Muhammad Naseem Chaudhri, Judge, Lahore High Court   What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? But this involves tremendous sacrifice. To give others a brething‑space we have to squeeze ourselves a good deal. If we really wish to let others enjoy the fruits of their honest labour, we will have to scrupulously maintain social harmony in a peaceful environment. Potentialities of human nature can only be realized in tranquil and congenial conditions of a corporate life whose cohesion and solidarity alone rule out any possible germination and growth of social tyranny, injustice and suppression of basic human rights. All this calls for an absolutely selfless conduct which, under the circumstances, has become rare, if not extinct altogether. The present race for power and pelf, bankering after unearned incomes and an unbounded expansion of learning and science appear to have made men only more selfish. It is, therefore, socially imperative and' ethically equally sound to curtail our growing physical needs and exercise austere curbs on unbridled urges for sensuous gratifications. Unchartered freedom and unregulated liberty have always invariably degenerated into licentiousness and moral stagnation which brought about the debacle and decline of many a brilliant culture and civilization of the world., It was to ward off such an impending danger to the community and the individuals that our Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) strictly exercised self‑discipline and self‑effacement with all its rigours and hardships throughout the whole span of his glorious life. His adherence to the beautiful principle of. social conduct,…