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Amar Prem
Is a living chief justice meant to be as pious as Mother Teresa, be above suspicion as Caesars wife and as pliable (for the executive) as a weeping willow?
By Anjum Niaz
N o, Im not talking about the Indian movie that emblazoned our youth and made women fall lustily in love with Rajesh Khanna and the men with Sharmila Tagore. The seventies were the heady VCR days spent huddled together as the bulky machine spitted out mouthwatering songs and dialogues of immortal love. Our universe revolved around love.
While I can walk you down the rose garden for a sentimental journey of romance, youth, and together we can lament our loss of innocence, the unbearable lightness of being summons me to another kind of story today. My usage, therefore, of the word Amar Prem relates to your and my and the worlds insatiable love for power and pelf. And money of course! Cutting to the chase, my man in the hot seat today is Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. His persona is rocking the boat. He is the face that launched a thousand movements last year. To say that he does not want to return to his old job of being the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) would be a travesty of justice. He wants his job very badly. But the question is: will he get it back?
The one-month deadline for restoring the judges as inked by the coalition government in the sylvan environs of Bhurban is fast running out. Meanwhile Law Minister Farooq Naeks fog of words on the judges issue is encouraging the naysayers to conclude that Asif Zardari cares not a whit for the judges restoration.
Zardaris factotums at Larkana reported verbatim the dramatic tension between him and Aitzaz Ahsan -- the man with herculean stamina. He sat behind the wheel and chauffeured the CJP for hours at an end during Chaudhrys showers of rose petals throughout the countryside last summer. One marveled at the passion of people generated during the long hot summer fiesta. Recently, we saw a tepid replay of that fire when the CJP landed in Quetta for a homecoming that resulted in angering Zardari.
Aitzaz was properly biffed by his leader for threatening to go on a road rage. Go ahead and do what you like, was the blunt scold from AZ. He reminded him that these same judges who were now seeking AZs mercy and wanting to return to their grand status of My Lordship with flagged cars and posh homes in the Judges Colony were not as innocent as portrayed. They too had taken their oath of loyalty under Musharrafs PCO for fear of being frozen out.Sulfurous memories of his prison days when he was not allowed to attend a close relatives funeral for just one day by these same judges now wanting relief crowded their conversation. Justice Iftikhar, said AZ had become politicised after his release from house arrest and was therefore unfit for returning to his post of CJP.
Granted that Justice Chaudhrys love of power for himself and his family proved egregious; granted that he wanted a heros welcome with the red carpet rolled out and a guard of honour every time he left home; granted that he wanted to cruise in the cushy limousines available and stay at the best lodges accessible; granted that he wanted his son assisted in securing good jobs, but then dont we all?
Is the Chief Justice of Pakistan expected to be a cut above the rest, including Asif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf and their henchmen? Lets first get these three heavyweights who today sit on judgment over us to clarify this issue. Is the CJP canonised as a saint receiving his beautification from the court of the ruling party?
In Catholicism, beautification is given to a dead person, like Mother Teresa, who is considered by the church to have gone straight to heaven and has the capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name. So, is a living Justice Chaudhry meant to be pious as Mother Teresa, be above suspicion as Caesars wife and as pliable (for the exec utive) as a weeping willow?
Am I to understand that its perfectly okay for AZ to appoint people who looted Pakistan, left the country to avoid arrest and are now back with a bang?
A certain federal secretary even leaked to the press from an unknown destination that he was suffering from interminable cancer. Well, this certain gent is back in our lives and on our payroll as the roving ambassador! And what about AZs appointees wanting to ride in the latest BMWs and Mercedes Benzes? From chief minister down to federal ministers, all have been given shiny black cars that are a blot on the image of a country where 75 percent of its population lives under a dollar a day. Shame! If Justice Chaudhry suffers from the same disease, whats the big deal?
Do you know what Hussain Haqqani and Rehman Malik did the minute they became VIPs? Both the gentlemen reportedly descended on the basement of the NAB (National Accountability Bureau) in Islamabad and personally supervised the destruction of all the records dripping with evidence against them and their benefactor Zardari. They took the law of the land in their own hands. So now for Zardari to pontificate that CJP has become political is an oxymoron when he himself is not going strictly by the book.
But even the Bush administration continues to fudge the law laid out by its higher judiciary. In its obsession to avoid accountability for its actions in war against terror by the federal courts regarding people arrested and kept in confinement, Bush legal experts have attacked habeas corpus, the guarantee that prisoners can challenge their confinement before a judge.
Kuchh to log kahenge, logon ka kaam hey kahna chhoro bekar ke baaton mein kaheen beet nay jaey rena ¦
Is a living chief justice meant to be as pious as Mother Teresa, be above suspicion as Caesars wife and as pliable (for the executive) as a weeping willow?
By Anjum Niaz
N o, Im not talking about the Indian movie that emblazoned our youth and made women fall lustily in love with Rajesh Khanna and the men with Sharmila Tagore. The seventies were the heady VCR days spent huddled together as the bulky machine spitted out mouthwatering songs and dialogues of immortal love. Our universe revolved around love.
While I can walk you down the rose garden for a sentimental journey of romance, youth, and together we can lament our loss of innocence, the unbearable lightness of being summons me to another kind of story today. My usage, therefore, of the word Amar Prem relates to your and my and the worlds insatiable love for power and pelf. And money of course! Cutting to the chase, my man in the hot seat today is Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. His persona is rocking the boat. He is the face that launched a thousand movements last year. To say that he does not want to return to his old job of being the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) would be a travesty of justice. He wants his job very badly. But the question is: will he get it back?
The one-month deadline for restoring the judges as inked by the coalition government in the sylvan environs of Bhurban is fast running out. Meanwhile Law Minister Farooq Naeks fog of words on the judges issue is encouraging the naysayers to conclude that Asif Zardari cares not a whit for the judges restoration.
Zardaris factotums at Larkana reported verbatim the dramatic tension between him and Aitzaz Ahsan -- the man with herculean stamina. He sat behind the wheel and chauffeured the CJP for hours at an end during Chaudhrys showers of rose petals throughout the countryside last summer. One marveled at the passion of people generated during the long hot summer fiesta. Recently, we saw a tepid replay of that fire when the CJP landed in Quetta for a homecoming that resulted in angering Zardari.
Aitzaz was properly biffed by his leader for threatening to go on a road rage. Go ahead and do what you like, was the blunt scold from AZ. He reminded him that these same judges who were now seeking AZs mercy and wanting to return to their grand status of My Lordship with flagged cars and posh homes in the Judges Colony were not as innocent as portrayed. They too had taken their oath of loyalty under Musharrafs PCO for fear of being frozen out.Sulfurous memories of his prison days when he was not allowed to attend a close relatives funeral for just one day by these same judges now wanting relief crowded their conversation. Justice Iftikhar, said AZ had become politicised after his release from house arrest and was therefore unfit for returning to his post of CJP.
Granted that Justice Chaudhrys love of power for himself and his family proved egregious; granted that he wanted a heros welcome with the red carpet rolled out and a guard of honour every time he left home; granted that he wanted to cruise in the cushy limousines available and stay at the best lodges accessible; granted that he wanted his son assisted in securing good jobs, but then dont we all?
Is the Chief Justice of Pakistan expected to be a cut above the rest, including Asif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf and their henchmen? Lets first get these three heavyweights who today sit on judgment over us to clarify this issue. Is the CJP canonised as a saint receiving his beautification from the court of the ruling party?
In Catholicism, beautification is given to a dead person, like Mother Teresa, who is considered by the church to have gone straight to heaven and has the capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name. So, is a living Justice Chaudhry meant to be pious as Mother Teresa, be above suspicion as Caesars wife and as pliable (for the exec utive) as a weeping willow?
Am I to understand that its perfectly okay for AZ to appoint people who looted Pakistan, left the country to avoid arrest and are now back with a bang?
A certain federal secretary even leaked to the press from an unknown destination that he was suffering from interminable cancer. Well, this certain gent is back in our lives and on our payroll as the roving ambassador! And what about AZs appointees wanting to ride in the latest BMWs and Mercedes Benzes? From chief minister down to federal ministers, all have been given shiny black cars that are a blot on the image of a country where 75 percent of its population lives under a dollar a day. Shame! If Justice Chaudhry suffers from the same disease, whats the big deal?
Do you know what Hussain Haqqani and Rehman Malik did the minute they became VIPs? Both the gentlemen reportedly descended on the basement of the NAB (National Accountability Bureau) in Islamabad and personally supervised the destruction of all the records dripping with evidence against them and their benefactor Zardari. They took the law of the land in their own hands. So now for Zardari to pontificate that CJP has become political is an oxymoron when he himself is not going strictly by the book.
But even the Bush administration continues to fudge the law laid out by its higher judiciary. In its obsession to avoid accountability for its actions in war against terror by the federal courts regarding people arrested and kept in confinement, Bush legal experts have attacked habeas corpus, the guarantee that prisoners can challenge their confinement before a judge.
Kuchh to log kahenge, logon ka kaam hey kahna chhoro bekar ke baaton mein kaheen beet nay jaey rena ¦
