An interetsing turn up for the books. Especially as some reports stated that Qayyum had resigned last week, but he still seems to be in his job, and carrying out his meetings with (new) govt ministers as before.
Qayyum meets Rehman Malik
News Desk
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General for Pakistan Justice (retd) Malik Qayyum met with Interior Adviser to the Prime Minister Rehman Malik here on Tuesday. The meeting continued for more than one hour during which various matters came under discussion. They also exchanged views on forced evacuation of Justice Ramday’s residence. They discussed the Prime Minister’s directive for implementation of Supreme Court’s orders on the issue of Jamia Hafsa.
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An interetsing turn up for the books. Especially as some reports stated that Qayyum had resigned last week, but he still seems to be in his job, and carrying out his meetings with (new) govt ministers as before.
So the news about AGP Qayyum's demise were exaggerated? Never mind - maybe in a few weeks. :)
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^^ I did, but I did not write the article. It was published in the News. BTW, if AG dosen't resigned he should be fired b/c AG suppose to represent the govt, and Qayyum dosen't represent present democratic govt in Pakistan, but old dead dictatorship.
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^^ I did, but I did not write the article. It was published in the News..
Well Shamraz too often than not you post news articles without being patient and checking them out first, and posting them as fact. :) But I agree that Qayyum is no saint, though historically I believe he is a good buddy of Nawaz Sharif as well.
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Why no change?
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Reports of a meeting between the new PPP adviser to the prime minister on internal affairs, Rehman Malik, and attorney general Malik Mohammed Qayyum, in which they discussed a number of hot-button issues, including the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa episodes, raise a number of intriguing questions. Malik Qayyum is a diehard loyalist of the old regime and his relations with the PPP have been anything but mutually tolerable. His arguments, public positions and official statements on the issues of the Nov 3 emergency, the PCO, the judges and the judiciary are no secret either. He does not hide his admiration for President Pervez Musharraf and had even publicly stated that if a PPP-led government took over he would quit his office. Normally all such political appointees automatically tender their resignations when governments change as a result of changed mandates. So why is Qayyum still in office and why is the de facto interior minister discussing his administration’s policies with a man who should have been shown the exit door a long time back? Even more intriguing is the fact that while senior appointments have already been made on key bureaucratic positions by the Yusuf Raza Gilani administration, no change has taken place yet in the interior and the law ministries which have to serve as the executive arms with critical roles to play for the new administration. In fact, without a change in this setup nothing on the ground would change. When will the new administration start taking control of vital organs of the state which matter in implementing critical policies? So far, all old incumbents of the previous regime continue to enjoy their positions and are very comfortable with Mr Rehman Malik and the new setup. Does it raise any red flags anywhere in the coalition?
Similarly an impression is fast gaining ground that 1988-type secret conditions are being imposed by the establishment, still being dictated by President Musharraf, to plant dependable players to shadow and monitor the ministries and policy-making institutions which serve the interests of the security and military establishment. Reports that the outgoing Pakistan ambassador in Washington, a retired major general who was the direct conduit between Mr Musharraf and Washington DC, will now be placed as the prime minister’s national security adviser, lend strong credibility to the perception that the PPP-led coalition has agreed to some such conditions before it was allowed to take over the administration. In 1988 a young and inexperienced Benazir Bhutto was forced to accept Sahibzada Yaqoob Khan, VA Jaffarey and many others as the establishment’s nominees in her government to ensure continuity and keep a watch. She paid a heavy price for accepting such derogatory conditions. Is there any such deal this time around as well?
It has to be remembered that 2008 is not 1988 and the PPP-led government is not in a position to make any deal unless the other coalition partners, and the people, are taken into confidence. What must immediately be done is that all the discredited functionaries of the old regime including Malik Qayyum, senior officials of the interior ministry, heads of all law enforcement and intelligence agencies under the civilian government must be immediately replaced with men of integrity who can be trusted by the people who voted the new government into power. Any attempt to insult their intelligence will not work.
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Interesting, if true, then a lot of people in the coalition i.e. Nawaz Sharif are either being taken for a ride by Zardari and Gilani, or they are going along with it?
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Interesting, if true, then a lot of people in the coalition i.e. Nawaz Sharif are either being taken for a ride by Zardari and Gilani, or they are going along with it?
I think NS is smart enough to know what is going on. He will let PPP/Zardar and Gilani play around for while and....thats until Mush is no longer there, and then he will ditched them.
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^^ he was also representing previous Mushrraf's regime who was trying to prosecute Zardari in Swiss courts, and he was the same judge who convicted BB on orders of NS (then PM) and when it came out he was forced to resign from LHC. Fast forward few years down the rd incorruptible dictator appointed the most corrupt exjudge in history of the country as an AG.
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Asif’s consultations in Dubai raise questions
By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, April 8: At a time when the political climate is heating up at home, some leading figures of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), including co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, have chosen to go abroad, making observers wonder if issues of national politics are again being decided in far-off lands. Mr Zardari went to Dubai with Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik on April 5 and later he called Law Minister Farooq Naek for ‘important consultations’. Initially it was said that Mr Zardari had gone to Dubai for a couple of days to meet his children.
However, his decision to extend his stay in the UAE strengthened the impression that his visit was linked to the government’s recent move to withdraw cases pending against him in a Swiss court. PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar said he had been told by Mr Zardari in Naudero that he was going to Dubai to see his children and would be back in two to three days. He said the co-chairman was expected to return to the country on Wednesday. The importance of matters under discussion in Dubai is evident from the fact that Mr Malik, who had arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday morning to meet UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, was flying back to Dubai. Sources said he was at Islamabad airport when he was asked by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani not to go to Dubai and, instead, address a press conference on the incident in which former minister Sher Afgan Niazi was manhandled, apparently by lawyers and some other people in Lahore.
Mr Naek, who returned from Dubai on Tuesday evening, confirmed that he had been called by Mr Zardari for ‘consultations’. However, he did not respond when asked why had he been called to Dubai when Mr Zardari was planning to return to the country on Wednesday. “You should ask this question from Mr Zardari,” he said. When asked if he had been called by Mr Zardari to discuss the Swiss cases, he simply said that they had held a ‘general discussion’. When his attention was drawn to the fact that Attorney-General Malik Abdul Qayyum had also been out of the country for a week, he said the question should have been addressed to the AG’s office. According to reports, Mr Qayyum is in Geneva awaiting orders from Islamabad and Dubai. The Swiss authorities are reported to have rejected the government’s request to withdraw the cases against Mr Zardari because there is no such provision in the country’s laws. The sources said legal aides to Mr Zardari and President Pervez Musharraf were trying to find a way out of the situation. However, the PPP spokesman denied that the Swiss authorities had refused to entertain the government’s request.
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I find this more interesting than what you highlighted. 2 crooks scratching each others back & this is why they feared CJ and him returning to the bench.
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The Swiss authorities are reported to have rejected the government’s request to withdraw the cases against Mr Zardari because there is no such provision in the country’s laws. The sources said legal aides to Mr Zardari and President Pervez Musharraf were trying to find a way out of the situation. However, the PPP spokesman denied that the Swiss authorities had refused to entertain the government’s request.
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Please don’t go any further.