Some excellent points from this article.
One would like to share what was written a little more than a decade ago in “the ugly face of fascism” when Mian Nawaz Sharif was PM. "On Friday Nov 28, 1997 the Supreme Court of Pakistan Building was attacked by an unruly mob that broke through the restraining police cordon. According to reports the mob was chanting slogans and epithets against the Chief Justice and almost reached the door of the Courtroom where he was presiding over a contempt of court hearing against the PM, Mian Nawaz Sharif.
However one is mystified why my good friend Aitzaz is being partial in asking only for the restoration of those judges who did not take oath under Provisional Constitutional Order PCO – 2 (2007)? Adherence to principles cannot be selective about favourites; they require that the superior judiciary who refused to take oath on 30 Jan 2000 under PCO-1 (1999) be restored along with those of the superior judiciary affected by PCO-2. One would prefer going back to the CJ Sajjad Ali Shah period but maybe it could open a legal Pandora’s Box, why not at least restore the 7 heroes of the superior judiciary in existence before PCO-1? The judges who took oath under PCO-1 (including CJ Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry) are legally and morally no different from those who took oath under PCO-2.
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=87971
Re: Selective amnesia over "free judiciary" - Benazir, Nawaz, Aitzaz Ahsan & others
Oh yes, and one more "free judiciary" campaigner with selective amnesia.
*Justice Fakhruddin Ebrahim, very vocal in November 1997 at the desecration of the SC premises and someone who should know better, now smilingly receives with open arms a decade later the man whose party perpetrated 28 Nov 1997, giving him thus absolution of sorts. Selective amnesia is not confined to Mian Nawaz Sharif, and PML-N, the collective version seems to afflict all of us.