SC rules in favor of Sharif brothers (merged)

[Shamraz_Khan]

Re: SC rules in favor of Sharif brothers (merged)

@Sa1eem

Yes, PM at the time of appointment can appoint any Lt Gen (not any General but any Lt. General) as army chief. Anyhow, please read my post again. I did not write ‘senior most’ but I wrote ‘from army seniors’.

I was not aware of Lt General requirement. I thought PM could appoint anyone from any three branches of military based on seniority (not always followed) list as an army chief. Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan comes my to mind. Wasn’t he army chief sometime back?

No, I am not confused. No post in government can be filled by appointing authority but can be filled after following certain rules and regulations (though you are right that in some countries, seniors overlook this requirement … though that is illegal).

No, its not illegal. When junior level officer is appointed as an army chief those above him normally resigned. When Mushrraf was appointed as army chief by NS those above him resigned.

As for post master general, that is not politically appointed post but it is government jobs and person get to that post after working many years of working in post office and getting promotion to that post. No one can sack ‘post master general’ like any government employee unless there is valid reason.

I was just giving you an example. I don’t even know if a post master gen is political appointee or not.

Half of Pakistan GDP is 73 billion dollars (Total GDP is around 146 billion dollars). Pakistan defence budget is around 4 billion dollars. Around a million people get paid from those 4 billion dollars plus all equipments of forces come from that too. India defence budget is over 22 billion dollars. How sad that Pakistan spend 18 percent of what India spends on defence and expect that they would defend the country on that money.

Read Military Inc. by Ayesha Siddiqa. It will open your eyes. PDF version might be available online.

As for what military did for country, well they increased Pakistan GDP from around 60 billion dollars in 1999 to today 146 billion dollars. I think that this is a big achievement. Stock market during last 8 years has increased 10 times, and that is big achievement … well, I won’t go into all what have got achieved, as that would become boring to even read for some Only thing I can say is that the biggest achievement of military is to save Pakistan from blood sucker parasites like BB and NS.

Care to explain how military did all that? Are generals mining gold in GHQ?

Still again I have to accept that President’s appointee (CJ) is not a very bad person (though still bad). He is better than mega corrupts like NS, BB. Probably he is less corrupt than many others we had as judges.

Everyone who is in position of power in Pakistan is corrupt, including Mushrraf and his lota league and top brass of military.

I never said that Pakistan does not need judiciary as institution neither all work can be done by one person. I only said that if government wants to, they can get rid of judiciary too.

Any civilized society that function based on constitutional rule of law, must have a judicial system. The govt system will not work w/o judiciary.

You know what? When I wrote my last post I was thinking that you might get confuse and might write what you wrote … that is why I made sure to write [especial education need (being a lawyer)] and not just [educational need] hoping that you would understand. Can you please tell me if a degree is ‘special educational need for being a member of parliament (anywhere in the world)’ or it is introduced in (illiterate, tribal and feudal) Pakistan as a proof that person that would reach parliament is able to read, write and understand at reasonable level (so that he/she can really contribute)?

The educational requirements to be a member of parliament were introduced by Mushrraf in 2000. Before that there were no educational requirements as for as I know. Also, to be a judge, you must understand laws, the law that are written by MPs who did not needed any degree to write laws.

KIya kiya jayea? If CJ of a country is corrupt and wants BMW to give verdicts regardless of it being right or wrong, what an ordinary citizen like me could do? I am poor Pakistani with no connections and that is why I feel worried when finds that Pakistan has corrupt CJ. To save my butt, have to pay until the day a clean CJ, a clean Prime Minister and a cleaner system comes to Pakistan. Yahaan morality ka kiya sawaal hay? Yea survival ka sawaal hay

I know all the poor Pakistanis (like you) drive BMWs. Kaash kay main be poor hota…meray paas be BMW hoti. I have Toyota… BTW, chances of your encounter with CJ are zero unless ISI kidnaps your relatives than you might need his help in locating them.