Re: Is Ch.Aitzaz Ahsan plotting with the CJ lead a breakway PPP?
**Silly Billy:**One can not say anything about intentions, but certainly one can learn lesson from past of Aitzaz Ahsan, especially when he has not said anywhere or claimed that he has changed. Anything is possible with Aitzaz Ahsan. Aitzaz Ahsan is opportunists and he might have seen the opportunity to get into the limelight on CJ case and use that for his own advantage. It is obvious that he is using CJ case for self-promotion and self-projection (that he has been charged in past too). I do not think that he cares for the people’s party and could ditch BB anytime if he finds that advantageous. Here is a chapter from his past that shows a lot including his love for judiciary and freedom of press:
Daily Times:
http://dailymailnews.com/200704/26/news/dmcitypage06.html
Parliamentary Secretary criticizes Aitzaz Ahsan
By Saad Ahmed
ISLAMABAD—Parliamentary Secretary for Economic Affairs Division and a leader of Pakistan Muslim League, Sheikh Waqas Akram, Wednesday questioned Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan’s professed commitment to upholding the honour of judiciary and freedom of the press.
Addressing a press conference here, the young politician from Jhang said that Aitzaz Ahsan had become a ‘two-in-one’ personality by politicizing the judicial matters.
This is the same Aitzaz who was expelled from Tehreek-e-Istaqlal by his party on December 16, 1985 on the charges of self-promotion and self-projection,” the Parliamentary Secretary said.
**“This is the same politician who appointed 20 workers of his party as judges when he was Federal Minister for Law. ****Those judges were later dismissed by the judiciary as most of those had never appeared before the court,” he said and added that ****those also included Ahmed Saeed Awan who was a convict in a murder case. **“Why he did not resign when a criminal was made judge?” Waqas Akram asked.
The Parliamentary Secretary said the court slashed those appointments and gave a 350 page decision. He asked as to why Aitzaz Ahsan had not resigned in protest when PPP chairperson publicly said that she wanted to appoint her party’s Secretary General as Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
Waqas Akram said he was questioning the so-called “custodian of the judiciary” who had questioned all the young MPs of the parliament terming them ‘under-19 politicians’.
“We are proud to be young politicians as we have no bleak past as Mr.Aitzaz does,” he said.
Waqas Akram referred to a report in ‘Sikh Times’ alleging involvement in handing over the lists of Sikh freedom fighters to Indian authorities when Aitzaz Ahsan was Interior Minister and demanded an answer.
He said the daily Nawa-i-Waqt had reported that Aitzaz Ahsan resigned from PPP in 1977 when Bhutto regime was facing a difficult time due to the PNA movement.
**“The nation remembers that this is the same person who when he was Interior Minister, was involved in harassing and deporting a women journalist named Christina Lamb,” Waqas Akram said and added that why this worthy lawyer has not answered the allegations leveled against him by the renowned journalist Christina Lamb in her book, ‘Waiting for Allah- Struggle for Democracy’. **
Sheikh Waqas said that he suspected Aitzaz Ahsan’s complicity in attack on the office of Senator Dr. Khalid Ranjha as he had in the past “attacked the office of the then Chief Justice Lahore High Court Rashid Aziz Khan.”
