If we look at it, Faisal has been more blunt and more obnoxious then Altaf. But instead of taking action against Faisal, the court decided to just stifle his voice.
What could be th reason?
Abidi excels world presidents, PMs in contempt of court - thenews.com.pk
Abidi excels world presidents, PMs in contempt of court
**LAHORE: Many rulers and public figures in the world, when convicted for committing different crimes or when they anticipated they would be punished by law, have been blaming judiciary and casting aspersions on it, but none has ever been as obnoxious and disrespectful as Senator Faisal Raza Abidi has been of late.
Dubbed by most as a PPP ‘loose cannon,’ Abidi has been openly abusing and cursing the Pakistan Supreme Court Chief Justice and other arbiters on numerous television channels and newspapers since August 5, 2012, the day he formally started hurling serious allegations against the country’s top judge, his colleagues and family.
During his August 5, 2012 Press conference at the National Press Club in Islamabad, Senator Faisal Raza Abidi had maligned the apex court in the harshest possible words.
In what could easily be termed tirade against the Supreme Court, he had even accused the CJ of acquitting a terrorist who allegedly killed 100 people, besides publicly announcing that he would soon table a bill against the judges who had taken oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO).
Although Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry did take notice of Abidi’s Press conference and had sought footage of the press briefing soon after to see whether it came under contempt of court, no concrete action against the PPP Senator has yet been taken - something that has stunned most Pakistanis who heard what the Senator had said without blinking an eye! There is no doubt that questions will arise and give birth to many suspicions if Faisal Raza Abidi is not called to the court in foreseeable future and asked by the arbiters to show cause of his venom against the Supreme Court Chief Justice and other sitting judges.
The delay in this context has already irked many and raised quite a few eyebrows.
There is a long list of Abidi’s accusations against the Chief Justice, his colleagues and family, but what is most startling is the fact that the Senator has remained the most sought after guest for all television channels during the month of August.
Senator Abidi may be the most vocal and disrespectful of all court critics, but former Premier Yusuf Raza Gilani and PPP stalwart Sharjeel Memon, besides others, have also been using fairly contemptuous phrases against the judiciary in recent months.
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