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.
[quote] Not only that, but those TV stations that reported this news had contempt cases very promptly filed against them by the Supreme Court.
I dont remember any such thing ever happend. Many tv chanel extensively reported it including GEO, they are runnign fine . Never read anything in paper either
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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.
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The case of his son is a cooked up story to put some breaks to his ever increasingly popularity among masses for his brave stance on the matters of public/national interest specially most recently for his aggressive questioning of illegal abduction of more than 100 pakistanis by federal agencies
Supreme Court was most active in the past two years by taking suo moto notices of crimes and social evils and by reducing the backlog of 36,000 cases to 10,000 cases in last two years. Which is nothign short of remarkable achievement by any mean
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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!
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IMO Justice Rana Bhagwandas is a honest and was working closely with CJ for improvement in judicial system, which is the main reason he was sidelined.
Also it not know that for how long he is out of country, Maybe musharaf waited for it.