Re: A black day for Pakistan.....
No matter how good a judge he was, when his son got a job in the FIA despite not scoring well enough in the examination, it really does look like this good judge turned corrupt and used his influence to bend the rules and get his son employed.
Not only that, but those TV stations that reported this news had contempt cases very promptly filed against them by the Supreme Court.
To those that defend Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudry, does this not appear suspicious at all? I think it is right to suspend him while the investigation clears up whether or not he misused his authority to help his son.
As for Justice Bhagvan Das - making him Acting Chief Justice for an unknown time would put the MMA in uproar. Already Musharraf is being accused of trying to take Pakistan away from Islam - how would it look if he appointed a Justice Das, a Hindu, to be the most senior judge in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan for an intederminate amount of time?
I'm sure Justice Das deserved to be made Acting CJ - in fact he does so for fixed periods of time when Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudry is out of the country. But for a Hindu judge (who admittedly is a qualified expert on Islamic law) to be made superior to all Muslim judges in Pakistan would make Musharraf's position even harder - he would be accused of bringing in a Hindu judge to secularize Pakistan!