Re: Of hats and shawls and dubious deals.
Did the CJ wear a Punjabi pagri when he visited Lahore?
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/20070429.htm
Quote: ‘Sadly, while Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry is being conducted around the country to speak in various Bar Rooms. We have also been regaled with a photograph of him wearing a funny hat and draped in a multi-coloured shawl. This he should not allow. He should indeed distance himself from the political antics as practised in Pakistan.’
The picture below is what Cowasajee is referring to i.e. the spectacle that non-functional CJ is making of himself, whilst addressing rallies of the opposition political parties.
In a previous editorial Cowasajee said the following, which was also again sadly demonstrated by the CJ’s appearance at the opposition parties rally in Lahore yesterday.
On to a current and most serious matter. Our men of law and letters are for once united in that they all want law and order and justice to prevail. But should they demean Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and all the good he has done and stood for, by parading him around the country like a political ‘mascot’? Should he be stood up to face politically motivated crowds? Should he not be allowed to be at peace while he faces the presidential reference? Our legal fraternity is mistaken if it thinks that its parades and strikes and ‘token hunger strikes’ (whatever nonsense they may be) will make one iota of difference to Acting Chief Justice Baghwandas’s sense of duty, his adherence to the law, or to his conscience.
