We always hear the phrase that justice is blind, but that is not really the case, is it? If justice were to be blind, then no defense arguments would ever be needed in a court of law. If one person murdered another, then the punishment, based on blindness, would drop down like a guillotine on the murderer, regardless of why the person committed the murder…irrespective of whether it was self-defense, accidental, or to save one’s honor.
Currently, our supreme court seems to be bobbing back and forth between blind justice and logical justice, and they have unwittingly (or perhaps under certain political influence) made certain decisions that are oddly timed. The case against Gilani was decided on April 26th, and the SC should have mentioned this in their sentence, that if the defendant does not appeal, and allows this verdict to stand, he will be disqualified as MNA and PM. Instead, the SC allowed the appeal deadline to pass, without any mention of disqualification, and came up with their verdict only when the opposition filed another case against the Speaker’s reference, that ruled against disqualifying the PM.
This intentional delay puts a huge spotlight on the way the SC has maneuvered itself lately. The funny thing is, that the SC was pushing Gilani to write a letter against Zardari…and now, while Gilani [the petty thief] has been thrown out on a technicality, the main culprit, Zardari[the mega thief], still occupies the presidency. And whats more, the SC has asked the same mega thief to call for a new petty thief’s election. WTF?
I sincerely hope that the SC does not start the same drama with the new PM all over again, where they ask him to write to the Swiss courts. I suspect, that even if the SC does not start this drama, PML-N will, as this exercise is just meant to humiliate the PPP, a party that happens to have a very thick skin, with very little brain. PPP could have shut the SC up a long time ago, by simply writing a letter to the Swiss courts, who would have promptly denied prosecution on grounds that the President of any country has immunity. Instead, both sides decided to be stupidly stubborn, and now we are at a crossroads.
Gilani should have resigned after the April 26 judgement. The SC court must now keep itself from repeating the same cycle with the new PM, as we are just a maximum of 8 months away from general elections. Through this drama, noone seems to give a crap to what the public is going through, whether that is endless loadshedding, or skyrocketing prices.
PML-N could have stopped this drama a long time ago by resigning from the assembly and forcing general elections. Instead, all they did was throw punches in the air, since they wanted to keep their Punjab govt. These parties (PPP and PML-N) lack democracy within their own structure. I dont know how they can root for national democracy under such circumstances when they dont even allow a non-Bhutto or a non-Sharif to make it to the top.