Re: Pakistan’s top judge is suspended
No the allegations were made by leading papers like the Nation / Nawai-i-waqt.
This is what was written:-
*His spouse, Mrs. Gloria Cohen Aziz is a wealthy, well connected socialite with an interest in many private firms of consultants as well as security contractors for the US government. These contractors and consultants have worked in Afghanistan since 1977; they have also worked in Pakistan, in Russia not to mention Iraq. She has travelled to Pakistan regularly to case the joint, as the Americans say, with the State Department spouse of a well known former US Ambassador to Pakistan who oversaw the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. The Americans are so keen to see her installed in Pakistan that they have left Iraq two days early to facilitate her entry into the country-an indication of the importance of the job she, not any PM is expected to do in Pakistan. Her arrival at the Prime Minister’s house in Pakistan should be a slap in the face of all those Muslims who have been horrified and disgusted by the humiliation and torture of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and the hate crimes against Muslim citizens of the United States. *
Shaukat Aziz showed great maturity when he did not dignify this with a reply, as the world over know what the actual truth is. :k: But Ikhram Seghal sent the shameless Nation an email that reads as follows:-
*Gloriously wrong *
Kindly refer to Shahwar Junaid’s article “the ultimate deal”. While deferring to the learned writer’s opinion, to each his (or her) own, some pertinent facts are “gloriously” wrong. Shaukat’s wife is not “Gloria Cohen” but “Rukhsana” and unlike the mythical “Gloria Cohen”, an invention of a really imaginative mind, Rukhsana is anything but a businessperson. Daughter of one of our finest civil servants, SS Iqbal Hussain, now retired, Rukhsana is a fine, upright person who is a low-key personality without any ego whatsoever, the perfect example of what a Pakistani housewife should be like. What to talk of Shaukat, all of Shaukat’s friends are proud of the exemplary manner she conducts herself. I think we owe it to our readers to at least get our record straight.
IKRAM SEHGAL, Karachi, via e-mail, July1.
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Now tell me did the Prime Minister summon the editor of this newspaper to his office, and effectively warn him to lay off like the suspended CJ did over stories running about his son?