Pakistan's top judge is suspended (Merged)

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Re: Pakistan’s top judge is suspended

@Silly_Billy

This the most serious charge against this Chief Justice. Who is he to summon a leading newspaper editor to his offices to effectively warn him to stop printing stories about his son? Worse is that he cajoles the Supreme Court into coming to the defence of his son.

I don’t really think any so-called corruption or nepotism is as serious as the the intimidatory behaviour of this man. It’s all a pity, as he was such a promising justice, but power seems to have gone to his head.

Interesting point. Or there could have been intimidation from other quarters using Jang group as the medium?

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court full bench on Friday directed Geo TV chairman Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman to repeatedly telecast an apologise on the TV besides publishing it on front pages of the dailies Jang and The News till the next hearing on March 12. The bench consisting of Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain, Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Justice MA Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed issued the directive during the contempt of court proceedings against the channel for telecasting a programme, which according to the court, was an attempt to lower the dignity of courts. Mr Rehman told the court that the information regarding courts shown in the programme was incorrect. The court observed that the information should have been verified before being telecast. The bench told him to be careful in the future. The court ordered the channel to start telecasting the apology from Friday. It observed that apology should be published at a prominent place on front pages of dailies Jang and The News. The court exempted Mr Rehman from personal appearance but refused to exempt his son Mir Ibrahim from the same.

http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\10\story_10-3-2007_pg1_7