Ex-CJ Iftikhar says he will meet President Musharraf

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Re: Ex-CJ Iftikhar says he will meet President Musharraf

@Reza_Pahlavi

Very interesting comments by the ex-CJ, and very conciliatory in nature.

http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/09/top4.htm

Iftikhar ready to meet president for judiciary’s cause

Deposed chief justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, has said he is willing to meet Gen Pervez Musharraf for the cause of the judiciary. When asked if he would meet President Musharraf to play a role in the restoration of judiciary’s independence, Justice Iftikhar said that before March 9 — the day he was first removed through a presidential reference — he had ‘good relations’ with President Musharraf. He said he often wondered (why the president took that step) because their relations “had never been strained”. He was talking to a BBC Urdu Service journalist on Thursday.

He said that judges who had taken the oath under the Provisional Constitution Order had no legal or constitutional legitimacy. He insisted that he and other judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts who had been deposed were still in office. When asked to comment on reports that the president declared the state of emergency because he feared that the 11-member Supreme Court bench hearing challenges to his re-election would rule against him, Justice Iftikhar said it was wrong to read too much into the remarks made by judges during the course of proceedings. “Supreme Court judges are no ordinary people. They proclaim a verdict only after examining all aspects of a case.” Responding to the president’s criticism that the Supreme Court had released felons suspected of having committed acts of terrorism, he said: “People were produced in the court. If there was no evidence against them, they had to be released. It is an internationally accepted principle of jurisprudence.”

Yaar RP c’mon. If Justice Ch. has some bitterness or frustration with Mush he’s not going to show it in public. There is something called basic decency and decorum. Not every news or outburst is for public consumption. I applaud him for not using any derogatory or insulting remarks about Mush apart from calling on the the public to rise for independence of judiciary (nothing wrong with that, he’s a right to protest his innocence). There should be some difference between a high-ranking public figure and a layman

He declined to ascribe the current judicial crisis to a clash between the judiciary and the armed forces.

Yaar RP c’mon. If Justice Ch. has any bitterness or frustration towards Mush he would probably not show it in public. There is something called professionalism. There is something called basic decency and decorum. Not every news or outburst is for public consumption. I applaud him for not using any derogatory or insulting remarks about Mush in public apart from urging the masses to rise for the independence of judiciary (nothing wrong with that, he’s the right to protest his innocence). There should be some difference between an educated high-ranking public figure and a ganwaar like Sheikh Rashid. I have also noted that NS (despite I am sure having great bitterness towards Mush) has always refrained from personal attacks on Mush in public. I give credit where it’s due. Imran I know can get a bit rude at times and some of the language (like naukar etc…The wall-chalking by MQM and the pornographic language they used about Imran on one of their websites was equally distasteful) that he used against Altaf and MQM in May could have (and should have) been avoided. I condemned it at the time. See I am not a blind supporter of Imran.