Benazir already showing that she is not going to be any different from her last two infamous tenures.
It just incompetency of Musharraf that BB is now becoming Musharraf’s confidante. The same BB whom Musharraf despised in the good ol’ days.
http://dawn.com/2007/12/15/ed.htm#2
IT ill becomes Ms Bhutto to accuse the ousted judges of doing politics before the promulgation of the Nov 3 Provisional Constitution Order which sent them packing. Was it really necessary for her to offer her verdict on the judiciary now? What could be the objective of this apparent feeler that the PPP leader has sent to the ruling establishment? Ms Bhutto is contesting the Jan 8 election which is also being held under the PCO — one that is arguably more damning than that issued in the aftermath of the 1999 coup, and under which she just cannot seem to shake off the memory that some of the ousted judges had taken oath. The time to say that the judges who took oath under the 1999 PCO were not independent was eight years ago. What was witnessed subsequently was a judicial activism of sorts which came in small doses, though perhaps in response to the government’s continued pressuring. It was far from being a case of the judiciary indulging in politics, as the ruling establishment has said repeatedly. Ms Bhutto’s kowtowing of the official line leaves one puzzled about the extent of the ‘understanding’ she might have reached with the generals before landing in Karachi on Oct 18. A sense of wonderment must also be felt by many over her caveat that the Jan 8 election will be rigged. Is she the only one to be trusted in the whole game plan devised by the devil himself, as it were? This acute sense of paranoia is indeed unsettling.
Ms Bhutto surely has a good memory but it tends to fade rather selectively. There has been a historical pattern whereby assertion of independence by civilian players never went unpunished; and the list is long. Of late, it is worth recalling that Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto made his debut in politics under a martial law regime and assumed power after an election held under army rule. Mr Mohammed Khan Junejo was handpicked by Gen Ziaul Haq. Both asserted their independence in due course; Bhutto paid for it with his life, Junejo with his job only. Do not the ousted judges merit credit for their stand in 2007?