Is it the same minister whose son slapped some officials on Karachi airport?
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I heard his coments on bbc and was amazed at his attitude. People like this should be removed from the public services.
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Yes, rather he himself ones hit a waiter a lot in a resturant over a trivial matter of delay in serving the food…
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ansar abbasi is a great journalist, he is the worst nightmare of corrupt bully politicians like wasi zafar!
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As the editorial says, shame
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=46889
A matter of shame
The abusive language used by none other than the law minister against a journalist of this newspaper during a live round-table discussion aired by a US-based radio network is shameful. The minister, who in the past has been reported for slapping a waiter in a five-star hotel and also looking on as his son allegedly thrashed a passenger at Karachi airport in 2005 (the passenger became irate after he saw the son jump the queue), was clearly out of line as he spoke in very intemperate language on the programme. The minister seems to have become annoyed by the presence of the said journalist who had some two years ago covered the airport incident. He then referred to the headline of that 2005 story and extrapolating from its headline, ‘Long arm of the law’, went on to make crude and unprintable remarks.
Fortunately for the journalist this was being recorded and the transcript of the show has now been aired on private television networks and is widely available on the Internet and several Pakistani blog sites. The minister did try to deny that he hurled abuse at the journalist but has been proven wrong. His manner of speaking and the content of his speech is most unbecoming – not only of a member of the prime minister’s cabinet but also of a civilized person in general. In most countries, when such things happen the government functionary exposed in this manner himself voluntarily steps down or is made to step down by his superiors. Only time will tell whether similar good sense prevails in this situation.
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it is not the personal honesty, integrity or wisdom that counts, he is a Lota and skips no opportunity in appeasing his boss, these qualities are enough for him to be the Law Minister, he has eclipsed Sher Afgan Niazi by a good margin
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Now this long arm of law has become a journalist's banh for the minister. :)
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Geo’s coverage of this event.
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Here is the handsome munda, who by his VOA stint has over taken another equally ugly and decadent ghoonda Altaf the fatneck don of Karachi, as Busharraf’s favorite henchman…
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VOA clip…listen to him openly threaten The News’ editor and his family…
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I heard his coments on bbc and was amazed at his attitude. People like this should be removed from the public services.
Without the support of these thugs, how would poor mushie perpetuate his rule...
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He is rude and arrogant............
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how would the great enlightened moderates of Mushi who talk of good governannce explain this?
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His son beat up a poor PIA passenger infront of FIA officials and the proud daddy…
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how would the great enlightened moderates of Mushi who talk of good governannce explain this?
They are waiting for the next head-degenerate to emerge so they could jump their bandwagon...
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Now this long arm of law has become a journalist's banh for the minister. :)
LOL.
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Conduct unbecoming
PERHAPS the federal minister for law, justice and human rights draws strength from the fact that he no longer has a reputation to protect. Even by his notoriously lax standards, Mr Wasi Zafar plummeted to new depths of ignominy on Tuesday when he thoroughly disgraced his office during a radio discussion, aired internationally, on the action initiated against the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Although the law minister claimed he was speaking in parables, the implicit threat was clear: he would sort out not only the Islamabad-based journalist who was also a panellist on the Voice of America programme and with whom he apparently has a history of bad blood, he would fix his family as well.
Resorting to language generally associated with semi-literate goons, the minister left listeners dumbfounded, with little doubt that might is right in Pakistan— a country where high office can be occupied by persons with no grounding in even the basics of decent and dignified behaviour.
So crude was Wasi Zafar’s verbal onslaught that his distorted version of recent events in Islamabad was as stupefying as was verbal excesses.
This is not the first time that the law minister has been guilty of conduct highly unbecoming. In August 2005, he had no compunction looking the other way as his son badly beat up a fellow passenger in the departure lounge of the Karachi airport.
The latter’s ‘crime’ was that he had dared to ask why the minister’s son was being allowed to proceed to the reporting counter without being subjected to the body search that all non-VIP travellers must routinely go through.
Some ten months earlier, in October 2004, an infuriated Wasi Zafar had left his seat and, apparently eager for a physical fight, dashed to the opposition benches in the Senate after being heckled and criticised. The law minister is also accused of slapping a waiter at a five-star hotel in Islamabad. The reason: he was dissatisfied with the slow pace of service. Wasi Zafar is a loose canon, one who does not care for decency and decorum in conduct. It is time his superiors briefed him on some behavioural do’s and don’ts.
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Does this ugly and ****face belong to MQM?
FARID
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why the surprise and dismay? we all know that:
Army is above the country
"President" is above the consitution
CJ is above injustice
Law minister is therefore naturally above law and ministering
welcome to Pakistan