Pakistan court quashes final Zardari case [size=2]ISLAMABAD, March 14 (AFP): A Pakistani court Friday quashed the last remaining graft case against Asif Ali Zardari, his lawyer said, removing the final possible hurdle to him standing for prime minister. Zardari was acquitted by the anti-corruption court Rawalpindi, in the last of seven cases that had been hanging over him for more than a decade, lawyer Farooq Naik said. “By the grace of God he has been honourably acquitted.I am very happy today that after a struggle of 11 years the state has failed to prove any cases against Asif Ali Zardari,” Naik told TV channels outside the court. “These are all politically motivated cases. After the long darkness in the tunnel the light has finally come and we hope that in future there will be no politics of revenge.” The case related to a BMW car which Zardari had allegedly imported without paying duty. (Posted @[/size]
Thank God.... He is a free and proud man now..The prestige of Pakistan... He would be the pole bearer of Benzir's legacy.... to the four corners of Pakistan. He is the champion of courage and strength , the sole hope for the future of Pakistanis. Whole Pakistani nation would be indebt to his knowledge & wisdom for many years...centuries.
We need laws to stop anyone who has been to a jail for certain years from getting a govt post esp a Minister or Governor.
I understand many corruption cases might 've been political motive, but what happened to the case where he planted a shoe-bomb to an investor in early 90s? or was it late 80s?
What is big deal? Crime in any country is according to what majority of people in that country considers crime, as laws in a country is determined according to what people think to be lawful and crime. That is what is called democracy and voice of people. Parliament comes from the vote of people, and people vote according to values they have, and thus parliament make laws, or court at least implement laws, according to wishes that reflect what people wants and consider right.
Pakistanis in majority vote corrupts, thugs, thieves, and liars like NS and Zardari. Many Pakistanis support people like Iftikhar who is guilty of nepotism, corruption, misuse of power and misconduct. Hero of many Pakistani is Atizaz whose value is to appoint convicted murderer and criminals as judge. If that is the values of Pakistanis, that is what majority of Pakistanis are, that is what majority of Pakistanis want, than all these should not be illegal in Pakistan and one should not convict anyone on these things.
Just imagine that there are many pathetic and corrupt Pakistanis who talk and wrote against person in Kashmir Assembly (Tahir Khokar) who as member of Assembly raised voice against corruption and misuse of public money and in result got beaten by corrupt members of Azad Kashmir Assembly. To these corrupt and pathetic parasites, misusing public money is right and to them guilty is the person who took courage to raise voice against misuse of public purse. What one can expect of these pathetic people and country full of them? Unfortunately, Pakistanis are full of such pathetic and immoral people, and worse is that these people do not feel ashamed of themselves, and others shameless people support them pathetic corrupts too.
I dislike Zardari, but the fact remains that 2 successive hostile governments have imprisoned him, they have had non-independent judiciaries at their disposal, and yet they have not been able to come up with enough evidence to convict him.
Unless both Nawaz Sharif and Musharraf were secretly trying to protect Zaradri by holding him in prison.... it would seem that the case against him was built more on accusations and hearsay that actual facts that could be proven in court.
What is big deal? *Crime in any country is according to what majority of people in that country considers crime, as laws in a country is determined according to what people think to be lawful and crime. That is what is called democracy and voice of people. Parliament comes from the vote of people, and people vote according to values they have, and thus parliament make laws, or court at least implement laws, according to wishes that reflect what people wants and consider right.
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Pakistanis in majority vote corrupts, thugs, thieves, and liars like NS and Zardari. Many Pakistanis support people like Iftikhar who is guilty of nepotism, corruption, misuse of power and misconduct. Hero of many Pakistani is Atizaz whose value is to appoint convicted murderer and criminals as judge. If that is the values of Pakistanis, that is what majority of Pakistanis are, that is what majority of Pakistanis want, than all these should not be illegal in Pakistan and one should not convict anyone on these things.
Just imagine that there are many pathetic and corrupt Pakistanis who talk and wrote against person in Kashmir Assembly (Tahir Khokar) who as member of Assembly raised voice against corruption and misuse of public money and in result got beaten by corrupt members of Azad Kashmir Assembly. To these corrupt and pathetic parasites, misusing public money is right and to them guilty is the person who took courage to raise voice against misuse of public purse. What one can expect of these pathetic people and country full of them? Unfortunately, Pakistanis are full of such pathetic and immoral people, and worse is that these people do not feel ashamed of themselves, and others shameless people support them pathetic corrupts too.
All the talk is nothing but sour grapes, just because one of your beloved party lost to other parties on anti-Mush sentiment otherwise all this talk is nothing but 'ghussay ka jhaag'.
All the talk is nothing but sour grapes, just because one of your beloved party lost to other parties on anti-Mush sentiment otherwise all this talk is nothing but 'ghussay ka jhaag'.
No, what I wrote is not in anger but truth. Agar sach kahoon tou aap ko lagtaa hay gussay may likh raha hoon. Aab may kiya kah saktaa hoon? :)
Believe me, I am not upset of the election result neither I am angry about it. Political parties win and lose election, come in government and get out of government, and that is part of democracy, and that does not matter (only ignorant become too happy in such victory or lose heart because of such defeats). Worrying thing would be if political parties lose vote bank because in the end it is this vote back that keeps a party in contest. Other thing about political parties is their manifesto, their ideology and what they stand for.
If you will see '18 Feb' election, you will note that pro-Musharraf parties won more votes than any other parties and if they stay together, they would keep increasing in force. Fortunately, their vote bank did not get reduced that one should worry. PML(Q) alone got over 18 million votes, second highest and couple of million votes less than PPP (riding high on sympathy vote after death of BB) and especially after so much propaganda and so much mayhem just before election, especially throughout since March 2007.
If PPP, PML(N), JI, TI, ANP, and other small religious and regional parties joined together to contest election at every constituency they considered their position is weaker than 'party in government' than obviously such unity could make most ruling party lose election. Anyhow, if other parties would stay joined in government than next change of government would be for party standing against them. So, it does not matter neither I am upset about the election result. If you think I am, you can read my pre-election posts, as I was thinking and was prepared to see PPP coming out in this election as largest party.
No, what I wrote is not in anger but truth. Agar sach kahoon tou aap ko lagtaa hay gussay may likh raha hoon. Aab may kiya kah saktaa hoon? :)
Believe me, I am not upset of the election result neither I am angry about it. Political parties win and lose election, come in government and get out of government, and that is part of democracy, and that does not matter (only ignorant become too happy in such victory or lose heart because of such defeats). Worrying thing would be if political parties lose vote bank because in the end it is this vote back that keeps a party in contest. Other thing about political parties is their manifesto, their ideology and what they stand for.
Let me elaborate why I said what I said....
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If you will see '18 Feb' election, you will note that pro-Musharraf parties won more votes than any other parties and if they stay together, they would keep increasing in force. Fortunately, their vote bank did not get reduced that one should worry. PML(Q) alone got over 18 million votes, second highest and couple of million votes less than PPP (riding high on sympathy vote after death of BB) and especially after so much propaganda and so much mayhem just before election, especially throughout since March 2007.
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It doesn't matter how many MORE million votes PML-Q got compared to PPP or PML-N, democracy works by how many seats they won. It would be interesting to see how many votes PML-Q didn't get in the constituencies they won in last election.
The reason I said you are bitter about the election results is that the thread is about court quashing final Zardari case. Now neither Zardari himself has anything to do with elections "directly" nor judiciary has anything to do with elections directly. New government is not even formed yet so they can't have any change in law to get Zardari's case quashed so your words about elections, criminal/crooks making laws are irrelevant in this particular scenario.
It doesn't matter how many MORE million votes PML-Q got compared to PPP or PML-N, democracy works by how many seats they won. It would be interesting to see how many votes PML-Q didn't get in the constituencies they won in last election.
The reason I said you are bitter about the election results is that the thread is about court quashing final Zardari case. Now neither Zardari himself has anything to do with elections "directly" nor judiciary has anything to do with elections directly. New government is not even formed yet so they can't have any change in law to get Zardari's case quashed so your words about elections, criminal/crooks making laws are irrelevant in this particular scenario.
Did I write anywhere that Zardari or Judiciary has to do anything with election?
I only wrote that psyche of Pakistani people is that they love corrupts and crooks. Laws of the country, Judiciary and election, all portrays what many Pakistanis value and love to see, and since such is the situation of Pakistanis, one should not get surprised that if people are given choice, crooks and corrupts are let off by judiciary, and become Prime Minister of the country. I only mentioned election results, Iftikhar, Atizaz, or some writing and becoming happy that khokar got beaten in Assembly even though his fault was to raise question against corruption in assembly, just as examples to show the corrupt, crook, thug, and disgraceful Psyche of some Pakistanis, and what they value, love and support.
Did I write anywhere that Zardari or Judiciary has to do anything with election?
Thats why I mentioned that the thread was about Zardari/Judiciary, nothing to do with election but you still dragged election, results, "Pakistani people psyche" etc.
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I only wrote that psyche of Pakistani people is that they love corrupts and crooks. Laws of the country, Judiciary and election, all portrays what many Pakistanis value and love to see, and since such is the situation of Pakistanis, one should not get surprised that if people are given choice, crooks and corrupts are let off by judiciary, and become Prime Minister of the country. I only mentioned election results, Iftikhar, Atizaz, or some writing and becoming happy that khokar got beaten in Assembly even though his fault was to raise question against corruption in assembly, just as examples to show the corrupt, crook, thug, and disgraceful Psyche of some Pakistanis, and what they value, love and support.
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All in an unrelated thread? Yeah it was not out of bitterness :)
