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Nawaz Sharif has come into power. This is bad news for Pervez Musharraf.
Nawaz Sharif at the helm of power and Inftikhar Mohammad Chaudary as Chief Justice what else combination could be well aligned for Nawaz Sharif and Nawaz Sharif to take his revenge.
Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudary is going to retire probably by the end of this year so the chances are the cases against Pervez Musharraf will be expedited.
Nawaz Sharif has come into power. All the credit goes to Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudary, Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court. If he has not cleared him from all the charges for which he was sentenced for life then he will not be here where he is today.
Nawaz Sharif should also be thankful to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for saving him from the punishment. Though, the King is still not happy with him because he broke his confidence and lied to him. There is no doubt Nawaz Sharif lied when he said he did not have any agreement with government of Pakistan to go into exile and he will not participate in Pakistani politics for ten years. But our Supreme Court is quite flexible and Election Commission of Pakistan cleared him.
This called authority of the courts.
Can anybody get the decision of his choice? You make your own judgment. You also have the authority to make your own mind.
On TV talk shows Khawaja Asif and Saad Rafiq both of PML-N were asking questions who funded the big gatherings of Dr. Tahirul Qadri and Imran Khan. What they were implying was this is funded by establishment. Indirectly, they were accusing Pakistan Army. Well, that is fine. They will get the answer by those respective parties. But we have another question.
Who funded the big jalsas chaired by Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudary and where Ali Ahmed Kurd used to shack is head with long hairs and Hamid Khan presently of PTI used to say they will tear the uniforms for generals?
That would definitely be of interest to people of Pakistan to know about that.
Was it Pakistan Army?
Was it Pakistan Peoples Party?
Was it Pakistan Muslim League (Qaaf)
Was it MQM?
Was it Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), or
Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif & Company?
After reinstatement:
Who got the benefit of that?
Who used to say solution of all the problems of Pakistan is to reinstate Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudary as Chief Justice of Pakistan.?
Which problem(s) have been solved by reinstatement of Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudary?
Do you know the answer? Please let the other people also know about that.
Today Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudary became upset when his flight from Lahore to Karachi was late at Lahore airport. He called PIA officials and yelled at them.
Should he have done that?
Should PIA officials have presented to him?
The answer to both of these questions is NO.
PIA officials are not accountable to him so they should not have presented to him. Just because he is Chief Justice he cannot start yelling at anybody he likes. If he has any complaint he should have taken proper channel and report to this thing. He is not PIA’s boss. On the other hand PIA definitely don’t have very laudable record of flight punctuality but that does not mean any person in high position start giving hard time to employees particularly Chief Justice.
He also said, as reported in the news, if he is upset what about other people. It seems our Chief Justice have just landed today in Pakistan and he don’t know the condition of PIA.
Why doesn’t he take a suo moto action against PIA chief executive or better yet against Defense Minister since PIA falls under his responsibility?
Are they going to have a head-on collision. It seems so. Let us see what are their problems and how possibly they are going to tackle. Nawaz Sharif During the previous elections Nawaz Sharif had made very inflamed speeches against Pervez Musharraf. One of the issues he raised against Pervez Musharraf was removal of Iftikhar Chaudary then the chief justice of Pakistan supreme court.
Nawaz Sharif and other politicians including PPP they did not have and still don’t have any action plan for the development of the country so they look for such things on which they can create a sort of agitation and gather the people and get votes. All these politicians use the same strategy. Basically they highlight an issue and present themselves as a solution. Nawaz Sharif promised in a big way that if PML-N came to power they will re-instate Iftikhar Chaudary along with other judges. After showing his first success of removing the president then came the second thing to re-instate the judges which seems now a stumbling block. Nawaz Sharif wants to bring back Iftikhar Chaudary to achieve his own motives namely to get himself entitled to participate in the elections, and get decisions against Pervez Musharraf in future cases which may be brought in the supreme court later. This is to pacify his revenge. Asif Zardari Asif Zardari as such was not very interested in removing the president but when he saw the wind direction he joined the mob. Now comes the re-reinstatement of judges. Like any other Pakistani politician he looked for his personal benefit first.
Though he was not very enthusiastic but he did not mind to join others to become champion of democracy. Zardari particularly did not want Iftikhar Chaudary to come back. He believes Iftikhar Chaudary is responsible for his extended stay in jail. Since Zardari has a enmity with Chaudary so he believes Iftikhar Chaudary may give a decision to void the NRO against which it became possible for Zardari, Shahbaz Sharif and others to participate in the politics. Zardari is not worried about Sharif or others but he is worried about himself. That is why you had heard before re-reinstatement of judges minus one or minus two etc. Now it seems Zardari has stuck. Nawaz Sharif wants to bring Iftikhar Chaudary back for his own purposes and Zardari don’t want him because of his own concerns.
Iftikhar Chaudary – The Man in the Dispute After getting out of the supreme court Iftikhar Chaudary participated very actively in anti-Musharraf rallies, political processions practically everything where he could blast against Musharraf. So he became a symbol of anti-Musharraf movement. When political parties saw this opportunity then Nawaz Sharif being the best opportunist grabbed the opportunity and joined them. Sharif got best of the both worlds, person who is anti-Musharraf and he can gather big mobs. Iftikhar Chaudary looked more like a politician then a displaced supreme court judge. Other supreme court judges like Khalil Ramday, Bhagwan Das and may be others associated themselves with different political views. So now politicians support the judges according to their mind affiliations and their political views. What is Next? Any solution to this pollution? Zardari needs Nawaz Sharif to keep his PPP in the government. On the other hand Nawaz Sharif has an upper hand at present. Zardari may lose the government, Sharif will not lose anything. In fact it will give boost to the popularity of Sharif. Zardari may seek support of other parties to stay in power against some other deals.
This is the first issue they have faced and the cracks started appearing. There would definitely be more. Still both coalition partners are not agreed what procedure will be adapted to re-instate the judges, if they are going to re-instate. A couple of possibilities. They may cut a deal with Iftikhar Chaudary that he will not give a verdict against Asif Zardari and not participate in the cancellation of NRO if it comes in the court. Iftikhar Chaudary may go back to his previous position but after a specified period he will be retired or he would resign.
Obviously these types of deals will not be made public so it is your imagination what you can think about other possibilities. Are we heading towards fresh elections? May be too early to say but definitely we are heading with a faster speed towards head-on collisions. This is the first one. More to come.
