A year on, the EX CJ Iftikhar Chaudhary is still an EX CJ.

Aalsi · November 3, 2008, 9:53pm

All those promises, all those hopes, but still the EX CJ Iftikhar Chaudhary remains the EX CJ.

Weren’t Great Zaradri and PPP led government not supposed to reinstated the EX CJ? Where did things go wrong?

Should the EX CJ take great Zardari’s advice and start a political career? After all, the EX CJ Iftikhar Chaudhary has politicized the Free and Fair judicary, and the Unprecdented amount of power given to it by the former President, the Great Pervez Musharaf, the greatest Pakistani leader since Quaid-e-Azam?

daleel · November 3, 2008, 10:00pm

Re: A year on, the EX CJ Iftikhar Chaudhary is still an EX CJ.

wasnt the dictator supposed to stay for 5 years after being rubber stamped by a fraud parliament. What happened? Where did he go? The greatest economy bubble fraud in the history of Pakistan.

Spock · November 3, 2008, 10:01pm

Re: A year on, the EX CJ Iftikhar Chaudhary is still an EX CJ.

Aalsi, I know it still hurts but Chief Justice Iftikhar was the reason why the dictator had to go after 8 years of his unprecedented mess, and he had to resign with utter humiliation. Whatever happened to ‘mein isteefa nayee doonga, mera dignity aye’… :hehe:

And bad timing, just now the CJ had a huge rally in Rawalpindi:

Martial law was imposed in country on Nov 3, 2007: Ch. Iftikhar

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Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that November 3, 2007 is an important day in the country’s history. Addressing the lawyers’ convention here, deposed chief justice said that lawyers and civil society had launched a movement for supremacy of law and constitution on March 9, 2007, adding Almighty gave success to the movement. Justice Chaudhry termed the November 3, 2007 action as a martial law in the country. He noted there was a difference in November 3 and previous martial laws. No Assembly has endorsed the martial law enforced on November 3, he added. “I am confident that present assembly will not endorse this martial law,” said deposed chief justice, adding government, opposition, lawyers, politicians and other section of the society have now realized that supremacy of law and constitution is must for the country. He further said that it was very unfortunate that democratic government could rule the country for 24 years only. Judiciary was also responsible for backing the dictatorship in the country, he said. He revealed that former premier Shaukat Aziz had conveyed to him about former president Pervez Musharraf’s anger on verdict given in Steel Mills case. The deposed chief justice said that he had replied that verdicts would be given according to the law and constitution only.
He said that media highlighted the verdict of Pakistan Steel Mills in a positive manner due to which the credibility of Supreme Court was restored.

ehtasab · November 4, 2008, 7:05am

And you really believed Zardari? Sure.

Aalsi · November 4, 2008, 6:32pm

Sholdn’t the lawyers be upholding the law, rather than asking for the scalp of a President that has been elected by the Parliamentarians.

God Bless Great Zardari, the President of Pakistan, for not giving into the illegal demands of the Lawyers.

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Lawyers want Zardari’s scalp over judicial stand-off
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan • Pakistani lawyers campaigning for the the restoration of a deposed chief justice vented their anger yesterday against President Asif Ali Zardari and warned of a storm of protest if their demands are ignored.

Thousands of lawyers across the country held protests yesterday, the first anniversary of the imposition of a six-week stint of emergency rule by then president Pervez Musharraf.

After declaring a state of emergency, Musharraf purged the judiciary of the independent-minded chief justice, Iftikar Chaudhry, and other judges who Musharraf saw as a threat to his plans to hold on to power. Musharraf’s resignation in August did not end controversy over Chaudhry, and the failure of the government led by Zardari’s party to reinstate Chaudhry led to a split in the coalition. Zardari is the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto who was assassinated in December. About 3,000 lawyers, political party workers and rights activists, many chanting “Go Zardari, go” gathered in the city of Rawalpindi to mark the anniversary of Musharraf’s emergency with a fresh call for Chaudhry to be reinstated.

“Don’t compel us to knock on the doors again,” firebrand lawyers’ leader Ali Ahmed Kurd told the rally.

“We want the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law in the country and if that doesn’t happen, the power of 100,000 lawyers and members of civil society will emerge like a storm,” Kurd said.

Analysts say Zardari, who was elected president in September, does not want Chaudhry to be reinstated as the country’s top judge.

Zardari fears Chaudhry might reopen legal challenges to an amnesty from graft charges Musharraf granted Bhutto, Zardari and other senior officials in their party last year as part of a proposed power-sharing deal, analysts say. Chaudhry also spoke to the rally, recounting the events that led to his ouster. Zardari’s refusal to restore Chaudhry led to the country’s second biggest party, led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, quitting the coalition, prompting fears of a return to the fractious politics of the 1990s. Although that has not happened, a new round of protests over the judge will raise concern for the government as it struggles with a financial crisis.