Re: CJ wanted to be PM & agencies to supply info on other judges
More and more people are now saying the same.
This republic is now held hostage to a spat between a general and a judge. The General needs to make a strategic retreat. The Judge, unless he can fully clear himself of whatever charges, frivolous or otherwise, have been leveled against him, will forever remain under a cloud. One cloud now floating is his skating over, in the affidavit he filed in the Supreme Court last week, the matter of how the Chief Justice of Pakistan found himself in Army House on the forenoon of March 9. Did he ask for an appointment with the head of state, as he has, so we have been told, done on many a previous occasion, or was he summoned, which the General has clearly told us he was not? (The subsequent happenings that afternoon have yet to be clarified.) Do any of the charges in the presidential reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry hold good? If one, or two, do, did the Chief Justice do wrong? He, in his exalted position, cannot be absolved on the excuse that multiple wrongs make one right. If others, the hundreds if not thousands, in positions of power abuse that power it does not follow, normally, in a democracy not ruled by corruption, that it is right or excusable.
http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/jun-2007/3/columns2.php