Naahh..it’s not a new *rock *ballad by some old *pop *star…
But oh for the love of God…
Do we need his ‘ultimate sacrifice’?
What will it do for Pakistan? Not idealistically but practically given how self-interest is the hallmark from SC to GHQ with all leaders, parties etc after own agendas.
And look who’s talking. Detective Arsalan bhai the cop of all people…
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\09\17\story_17-9-2007_pg1_7
CJP willing to make ‘ultimate sacrifice’ to ensure history remembers him
** **Son says crisis has strengthened his father’s resolve to be Pakistan’s best-ever judge
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*LAHORE: For months, Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has lived as a partial prisoner in his own home, venturing out only to attend court proceedings or meet fellow lawyers, The Sunday Telegraph reported his son Arslan, 28, as saying on Sunday.
CJ ‘like a man reborn’: It said that yet, family and close friends say the 58-year-old chief of the Supreme Court is so determined to do what he believes is right in his country’s constitutional crisis that he is “like a man reborn”.
“His new resolve is to go down in history as the best judge Pakistan has ever had, and he is ready to make the ultimate sacrifice to impart justice to everyone,” Arslan told the newspaper in a rare interview.
He was speaking at the heavily guarded home just outside Islamabad that Justice Chaudhry shares with his wife Faiqa, 46, two sons – Arslan and six-year-old Balaach – and three daughters, Ayesha, 28, Afra, 20, and Palwasha, 16.
**As Arslan was speaking, supporters of Benazir Bhutto, the exiled former prime minister, were announcing her intention to return home on October 18. She has been told she may enter the country but will face corruption charges – another decision whose legality Justice Chaudhry and fellow judges will have to determine.
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On Saturday, President Pervez Musharraf’s ruling party put itself on a collision course with the Supreme Court, announcing it had finalised its plans to re-elect him with a vote in the first week of October.
Now Justice Chaudhry has set up a nine-member panel of Supreme Court judges to begin hearing two constitutional cases against Musharraf: the first disputing his right to seek re-election, the second his right to continue in high political office while heading the army.
Either could prevent Musharraf from staying in office beyond the next few weeks, in which case allies say he is ready to impose full military rule. “If the court confronts me, I’ll definitely use the option of martial law,” Musharraf told a senior party member recently, the newspaper said.
The chief justice himself has refused to meet intermediaries sent by Musharraf in recent weeks.
His son said the government had halved the security around their home and bugged their telephones. In the wake of threats to his life, Justice Chaudhry’s family leave their house only rarely. “Daddy used to love long walks … but he doesn’t go any more because of security concerns,” the paper quoted Arslan as saying.