Mr. Justice Khalil Ramdey!
“Is Mustafa Ramdey Advocate your son? And is Raza Farooq, the incumbent Advocate General for Punjab your nephew? If that is true, how come you are a Judge of the Supreme Court?”
Are you astonished by my question? Be frank! If you are baffled, then you are as naïve as any advocate of the Lahore High Court. My first two questions can be answered by a nod than a word. You simply don’t have to think because thinking can’t produce a better answer. Reserve your faculties for the third question – for it’s a quo warranto question. Don’t think unnecessarily. It consumes blood glucose. A son is a son and a nephew remains a nephew until you disown him through an advertisement. You know the procedure. Don’t tell me you can renounce such well groomed advocates only to avoid my embarrassing query. You should take pride in the budding jurists of the Ramdey Clan. Oh sure I knew your elder brother Chaudhry Mohammad Farooq, the late Attorney General for Pakistan. No, I never met your brother Asad-ur-Rehman, ex-MNA of Mian Group. Not everyone in this Republic can identity your political and apolitical brothers or partisan/non-partisan nephews unless, of course, they bear the same family name. Raza and Mustafa are first cousins and any contesting lawyer unaware of their relationship can be taken for a ride in the courtroom. I saw them as a team when they came to rescue the Sharifs in March just after you re-entered the Supreme Court. Raza was then deputizing Ashtar Ausaf Ali, former Advocate General. Do you know him? And surely you would know Khwaja Haris Ahmed son of Khwaja Sultan. In case you don’t know Haris, ask your son because I see here the signatures of Mustafa Ramdey Advocate High Court just below those of Khwaja Haris, Advocate Supreme Court. Both appeared for the Punjab Government in Writ Petition 18515/2009 this October. Great men of reason! They knocked out the Chief Election Commissioner, your senior in the Supreme Court. Surely the case doesn’t matter much to you for your attention is focused on matters more important for Sharifs. The case was about an impractical bye-election in Lahore. Never mind. Let’s not get into trivial matters. The baseline is that Mustafa can happily tag with Haris who has just been registered as the Senior Advocate of Supreme Court. You know the procedure by which Supreme Court occasionally encourages youngsters ignoring their milk-teeth. In journalism we call them senior journalists. In March Haris guided the Supreme Court in re-crowning Chief Minister Punjab. Without March 16, of course, his argument was bull****. Okay, buffalo ****. In February, the same Court had dispatched his contentions to the nearest Gobar Gas Plant. One of those days in February, Mustafa had paid me an undue compliment. Now in return I am sincerely persuading his dear father to forego a fraction of his pension and gracefully retire. You can surely take full pension and disgracefully retire. The Constitution has given an option to judges. The disgraceful retirement is rather hazardous. The Court may stop your pension altogether and declare your judgeship ab-initio void. That’s the latest formula derived from the Constitution that in 1973 granted judges job security to boost their guts.
Mr. Ramdey, I can stop this letter the moment you opt for the graceful course. Call me on 0300-5328204. Mark the last three digits. Sorry, Article 204 can’t help you out this odd hour. You have to consider my offer because I contribute to your salary and you are drawing fifty times the amount mentioned in the Constitution. See, to save your job I can’t ask Raza Farooq to quit his job. Nor can I ask Mustafa to instantly change his political affiliations or close his law office in Gulberg. The Government of Punjab knows their potentials better than me. I don’t see any nepotism. The Chief Secretary Punjab must have known Mustafa Ramdey for his brilliance than any connection in the Supreme Court. I wonder if he knew that another Ramdey is a Judge out there. But when I challenged Lahore High Court’s judgment on Mustafa’s petition bearing his signatures, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry instantly obstructed. He knows Mustafa is your son. Doesn’t he? Only the other day he promoted Khwaja Haris on the recommendation of someone belonging to Punjab. Do you know that the judgment Haris clinched for Sharifs was not approved for reporting? How did then the Chief Justice discover his legal caliber?
Please be informed that Haris and your son moved the High Court on behalf of the Chief Secretary and Home Secretary Punjab and sought an order against the Federation. A judge of matching caliber gave a ruling against the Federation never knowing that disputes between Governments is the exclusive jurisdiction of the apex Court. Do you have any doubt that Lahore High Court can’t hear a dispute between Punjab and Pakistan? Who is competent to make laws about the Chief Election Commissioner, the Parliament or the Punjab Assembly? Who extends his tenure after three years, the National Assembly or the Provincial Assembly?
Now your son and his senior don’t even know the basics of the Constitution. And when their easy victory at High Court is challenged, an instrument clerk under you returns the appeal. The message is: How dare do you challenge Advocate Mustafa Ramdey before the Supreme Court?
I know you are the star player of the Chaudhry Eleven, Okay call it Chaudhry Seventeen. Your Captain knows you are a scorer. He relies on your dodge and dribble. You can find gaps and make way. Without you, he would have been dead as a judge. I have seen your skills and stick work on the field. Recall the day when General Hamid Gul sought intervention in Wazirisitan. His lawyer Ikram Chaudhry had hard time on the bar because in your books, Wazirisitan was out of bound for the Supreme Court. Hence the petition was dismissed. Supreme Court, obviously, had to choose between Hamid Gul and Pervez Musharraf.
Now, however, the Supreme Court is independent. Besides, Wazirisitan has been re-included in Pakistan without any order from judiciary. The Military is bearing the cost in blood and gun-powder.
Ikram Chaudhry is once again on the bar questioning NRO and pleading against the successor of Musharraf. You would be all ears. This time the matter is within your jurisdiction. Just recall your tackle of Ikram Chaudhry in the previous case and compare your present treatment of the same person.
Mr. Ramdey, you know it. Your brothers and even their next generation seem inseparably associated with Sharifs. The Ramdeys are their legal midwives. If Mustafa would not postpone election for Sharifs and if my appeal against him was not returned by your very dear brother, you would not be listening to this music. If there is no one to hear a dispute between Punjab and Pakistan, why should I accept you as a judge of the Supreme Court? Where is the Supreme Court? What is it doing this Tuesday, December 8, 2009? Tell me what comes first? What is the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court — inter-Government disputes or Fundamental Rights? See which clause of Article 184 uses the words “Original Jurisdiction”. The enforcement of the Fundamental Rights is not a jurisdiction at all. It is just one of the powers of the Supreme Court. Please before enforcing Fundamental Rights, do read the word power in clause (3) of Article 184. Don’t misuse the given powers for Sharifs.
Something is terribly wrong with your perceptions, even your name. In the Punjab, a child can be rightly named Allah Ditta, Allah Rakkaha or Allah Wasaya but no man is entitled to be called Allah for that would be treason. If you were called Khalil Fullaan, I would have no objection. Those two words are also used in the Quran and used together. But how can I accept you as Khalil of Al-Rahman? The latter is a proper noun and we know only one Al-Rahman who somehow did not pick his only Khalil from the Punjab. Please recheck that Al-Rahman did not pick a second Khalil at any time thereafter. There is a single Al-Rahman and a sole Khalil of that Gracious Authority.
Your name, thus, is utterly fictitious. Intolerable! It is a breach of the Quran. Your anger, mind it, would only confirm your ignorance. See I don’t object to names like Mustafa or Asad-ur-Rahman.
If you prudently rename yourself as Khalil Nawaz or Khalil Sharif, I can bear with you. I may even allow you to continue as a judge of the Supreme Court. That name would adequately explain your job but you can’t hoodwink me.
I have no problem in calling Rana Bhagwan as Bhagwan but I will not let you misuse the exclusive title to my Great Grand Gather Ebrahem, salutations be upon him.
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