The process has begun of transferring key military powers from the COAS to the Presidency, ahead of Musharraf taking off his uniform. Then once Musharraf takes off his uniform, he will retain all Executive powers, especially over the military as a very powerful President indeed. A very clever strategy indeed. :k:
Amended PCO vests president with power to lift emergency
President Gen Pervez Musharraf who as Chief of Army Staff promulgated the state of emergency and Provisional Constitution Order on November 3 has transferred the power of lifting the emergency to the office of president. He amended the PCO with the Provisional Constitution (Amendment) Order 2007, issued on Wednesday night. The order comes into force at once and will be deemed to have taken effect on Nov 3, 2007. “The importance of the amendment is that the power to lift the emergency now vested in the office of the president, Attorney General Malik Qayyum told Dawn on Thursday. Political observers, however, say the amendment reflects Gen Musharraf’s desire to rule with the powers of emergency even after hanging up his uniform. Mr Qayyum claimed that Gen Musharraf would quit his army post before December 1.
The notification about the amendment to the PCO reads: “The President may revoke the Proclamation of Emergency of the 3rd day of November, 2007, on such day as he may deem fit.” To most people, the amendment only means that Gen Musharraf has transferred the power from himself to himself, as he currently holds both offices of the president and the army chief. However, legal experts say it is not so simple. The attorney general said that since President Musharraf had imposed the emergency as the Chief of the Army Staff, he wanted to lift it himself as and when required after relinquishing the post of the army chief. “It is very simple to understand that the president wants to keep this power of lifting the emergency with him when he will no more be the army chief,” Mr Qayyum said. He said had there been no amendment to the PCO, the new army chief would have got the power of lifting the emergency. “But now President Musharraf would himself decide about this issue,” he said. In reply to a question, he said that generally anybody “who imposes the emergency, himself removes it, but now the situation is changing, keeping in view that the president is quitting as the COAS and, therefore, he wants to keep these powers with him,” he said.
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Of course he said that previously that he will lift the emergency once the new judges endorse his dual role which has already happened so Mushy is now preparing to strip COAS off powers so Kiyani doesn’t hang him. Whats new?
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Captain bhaijan, lets not get carried away, there is one more petition left against the dictator. There is still hope that the Free Judiciary will throw him out.
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When a lies twice like Mushy has, how do you trust him the third time?
Let me see the day when he actually takes off the uniform - then I will believe what he says.
About Mushy they say - When he speaks, how do you know he is lying, how can you tell?
Answer: His lips move. :)
Sure its corny, but its true. The guy will do anything, anything to hold on to power. The only way he leaves the army is if KAyani holds a gun to his head all the way out the GHQ. Lets hope its true
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^ I don't know about going that extreme. EVEN if he hasn't been the oh-so-perfect leader, he has been a leader nontheless. This is a time when pakistan has to set an example for the people that'll follow. I think he should go, and he should be let go with dignity. U can't fight hate with hate.
Give the man his dignity as a former whatever. I'm all for him leaving, but i don't know if i would humiliate him, even if has humiliated other people. You want revenge, take him to court and press charges of mass murder and give him the taste of his own medicine, that is, the legal tactics. Deal with the problem like any civilized nation would. no more jungle rule please.
Best farewell.
We can't be overtly negative, or else the pakistani youth is gonna learn to be just as extreme as the elders are today. The decisions that people and politicians take now, will go a loooong way.
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Captain bhaijan, lets not get carried away, there is one more petition left against the dictator. There is still hope that the Free Judiciary will throw him out. :)
Re: COAS General Musharraf transfers powers to PRESIDENT Musharraf
^ I don't know about going that extreme. EVEN if he hasn't been the oh-so-perfect leader, he has been a leader nontheless. This is a time when pakistan has to set an example for the people that'll follow. I think he should go, and he should be let go with dignity. U can't fight hate with hate.
Give the man his dignity as a former whatever. I'm all for him leaving, but i don't know if i would humiliate him, even if has humiliated other people. You want revenge, take him to court and press charges of mass murder and give him the taste of his own medicine, that is, the legal tactics. Deal with the problem like any civilized nation would. no more jungle rule please.
Best farewell.
We can't be overtly negative, or else the pakistani youth is gonna learn to be just as extreme as the elders are today. The decisions that people and politicians take now, will go a loooong way.
let him burn
the damage to the nation is already done.
I dont see the situation as salvagable. One man for the sake of his job has destroyed the free media, the independant judiciary, has made war on his own people and torn apart the constitution
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^The court can be as corrupt as it wants to be... If you had any clue of how a democracy functions, you would understand that its not for a dictator to expel the Supreme court but for national assemblies to find a way to harmonize the relation between the two branches of govt... Each institution is meant to harmonize and balance the others...
In Pakistans case, we have a military represented by a dictator who has to wrestle control from a rival insitution which has every right to be completely independant and free... Because there is no third tier in Islamabd worth speaking of, conflict between the judiciary and the "executive," go unresolved until the dictator actually resorts to dictatorial rule...
Still, the court is right in blocking Musharaf, as going strictly by the constitution AS IT SHOULD BE, Musharaf is completely going against the constitution and rule of law...
Its not a matter of hypocracy, but a matter of complete ignorance on the part of the dictators supporters...
