nyah, any country where the govt gets blackmailed by a bunch of religious nutjob loonies holding a children's library hostage, ...nothing from there surprises me.
let's make it another property of the Banana Republic.
Yes like BB which is playing ping-pong with General and Nawaz Sharif both......and may be you remembered that Mullah Diesel( fazlu-ull-rahman) said that we will not resign from NA as we will protest in NA on Huddod BIll...now tell me in last 2 months...have you ever heard a single word from these mullahs...!!!!!all are te same traitors......all like seats and powers...houses..government phones...cars with drivers.....heavy pays and other facilities.....qaum jai bhar mai ...hamari roti lagi rahay.....
this general said that "am i a peon that Nawaz Sharif dismissed me like that !!!!" ....and the same man now dismissing CJ ...the third most powerful man according to Blue Book of Pakistan after president(legal) and PM and the most respected as being the Chief Judge(Qazi-ul-qaza) and he is bound to sit for 5 hours with General in uniform and General is insisting him to resign from this prestigious post ...!!!!! Yaar hud ho gai baighairti ki !!!!!
If indeed 23 cases have been registered against judges in SJC, why are those udges not been suspended like Iftikhar Ch? Again, it tells s that case against Iftikhar is politically motivated and has nothing to do with coruuption per se.
The 23 cases are registered against High court judges - not judges of the Supreme court like Iftikhar. Now how come the Supreme Judicial Council has been unable to take care of these cases in all these years? It is the responsibility of the superior judges to tackle corruption amongst their own, yet how many cases have you heard of them ever doing so? Instead what do our superior judges do when private tv stations accuse them of corruption? They make them apologize and say sorry repeatedly for days on end.
Pakistan's leaders, politicians, businessmen, soldiers - all have been accused of corruption and high crimes, and faced cases. Have you ever wondered why our judges are never accused of such crimes? - especially when recent surveys have indicated that Pakistani people perceive judges as the most corrupt after the police and politicians. Maybe it has a lot do with the fact this CJSC - the boss of all judges in Pakistan, is as one newspaper called it accused of leading a "slaughterhouse" mentality against anyone questioning corrupt practices amongst the judiciary. This is a CJSC who summons newspaper editors to his chambers and warns them to lay off publishing stories about his son, and asking the Supreme Court as a whole to come to the defence of that na-laik son! Imagine if the President or PM summoned editors to the offices, and got the state to issue statements in support of their families. The outcry their would have been of how the govt was targetting the freedom of the media etc.
LAHORE: The Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) cancelled Advocate Naeem Bokhari’s practicing licence on Saturday and banned his entry to any bar association of the province for levelling allegations against suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Naeem Bokhari, also a famous television personality, wrote an open letter to Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on February 17 accusing him of failing in his duties as chief justice of the Supreme Court. The letter, which was widely circulated in Punjab official and social circles, accused him of using his office to favour his son, of being excessively fond of protocol, and of being rude to lawyers.
Musharraf is acting more and more like a b itch in heat in front of America...
Yes BUT...
the maulanas and the clergy and "ALL" the fanatically religious people in Pakistan are acting like b itch's in heat who have got religion so far down their throat that they cant take anything up the other side, which frustrates them more and more..... :(
Firstly, understand that it is not the judiciary that has cancelled Naeem Bukhari’s license, it is Bar coucil. Bar council consists of Lawyers and not judges.
What a crap of allegations are these, fond of protocol, who the hell is not fond of protocol in government itself? Does Mushy himself live like Khalifa Umer Bin Abdulaziz?
If the whole issue had been about getting rid of corruption in Judiciary, i wud have been very happy. However, the whole media, whose freedom seems tp be so dear to you, has been backing CJ. Look at editorials in all newspapers:
All have been lambasting Musharraf n this. You seem to be more concerned about media than media’s itself.
Yes BUT...
the maulanas and the clergy and "ALL" the fanatically religious people in Pakistan are acting like b itch's in heat who have got religion so far down their throat that they cant take anything up the other side, which frustrates them more and more..... :(
Abhey dhakkan, what has this issue got to do with clergy?
a not so good judge was kicked out in an incorrect manner.
..him being a lame judge does not warrant how he was removed
..and how and by whom he was removed does not make him a great civil servant
so while we talk about him doing good stuff... it seems like he was doing some not so good stuff either.
and one of the whistle blowers, who may or may not have played a part in this is now barred from practice and entering courts by lawyers..on what grounds? did he do something that was against the law or against the code of conduct for the bar?
Nothing makes a right here, everything is wrong, and the sad part is that the masses are part of it.
I hope you watch Pakistani news, you should have seen what a demonstration the lawyers of Lahore staged. It would have made you sick...
I quote from something I have written...
"Coming back to the character of our nation, I was sickened to the stomach to see the reaction by lawyers in Lahore today, I could not hear the slogans they were chanting, but the only thing that drummed my ears were “We are the lawyers of Pakistan, tomorrow we will become judges, and day after we will abuse our position to have financial, political, and social gains, so No one dare disrespect us.”
** Right now Geo is broadcasting a news feed, that this specific issue will not be discussed in print, electronic, or online media. If anyone is seen doing it they will be held for "contempt of court" under article......" Azkar Watch out!!!!!!!!!**
PS: Now the Pakistani judiciary has become the "Corrupt Untouchables"