Posts Tagged ‘Iftikhar Chaudhry’

On Thursday, we saw a new anti-PPP decision from the so-called independent judiciary. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been summoned to appear before the Supreme Court on February 13 for the framing of the contempt of court charges. This could be another sad moment of Pakistan's fragile democratic history. The conspiracy behind the [...]

Yet, another summon to an elected Prime Minister by the ISI-backed Supreme Court to explain his position on on 13 February for not witting the much wanted letter to Swiss courts to re-open politically motivated graft cases against President Zardari of Pakistan. Earlier, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani appeared in the court on 19 January 2012 [...]

I try my best not to read The News, as it is an anti government, pro-PML-N, pro-military and pro-CJ newspaper. Whenever I do, there is one reason or the other to write something about it. In The News, of 31st January, 2012, an advertisement in the form of an APPEAL addressed to "Before the Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar [...]

The “Stupidisco” that Pakistan was converted into seems to be coming to rest. After Mansoor Ijaz’ refusal to come to Pakistan and demanding that this testimony be taken outside of Pakistan, the apex adjudicator, CJ Iftikhar Ahmed Chaudhry had no choice but to give two more months time for the Inquiry Commission to investigate and  adjourn [...]

The top investigator of The News and Jang group of publications and electronic media’s top observer Ansar Abbasi has unveiled the letter written by Mansoor Ijaz the main character of Memo scandal to the Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry. During last hearing the CJ announced regarding that personal and secret letter and [...]

“Army Chief sees deep conspiracy” screamed a banner headline in the Business Recorder of December 16, 2011 and I thought to my self - yes there is a deep conspiracy, just as there was a deep conspiracy in 1977 when the dormant FIR against the first elected Prime Minister of the country was revived and a trial was initiated and stage managed to [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) has directed Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to appear before it on Thursday to explain why contempt of court proceedings should not be initiated against him. The contempt charges emanate from Gilani not carrying out the court’s 2009 orders in the National Reconciliation Ordinance 2007 (NRO) case. The NRO, [...]

Recently we had suggested that instead of a suicidal confrontation with army, the elected government should tighten the ISI-backed judges' screws via the parliament and intermediaries (e.g. leaders of the ISI-backed lawyers movement Aitzaz Ahsan, Ali Ahmed Kurd etc). We also suggested that the government must reject all suggestions by the [...]

دھائیوں کا نشانہ پانچ جولائی 1977، چھ اگست 1990، پانچ نومبر 1996 اور اب 2012 کی کوئی وارد کی ھوئی تاریخ کونسی ھوتی ھے اسکا انتظار کرنا پڑیگا یا پھر موجودہ گورنمنٹ کی دی ھوئی تاریخ کو معجزے سے کم نہیں [...]

Constitutional experts in Pakistan as well as internationally have termed the execution of Pakistan's first elected prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) illegal, a judicial murder which was clearly influenced by Pakistan army. On April 4, 1979, Bhutto was hanged after Punjabi judges of the Lahore High Court ordered his execution on charges [...]

Make so much noise that everything becomes inaudible-then people would hear what we want them to hear. This is how the Pakistani Establishment is controlling the game at the moment - It is very clear who is who, and what is what. But because of a concentrated effort to remove the current Government and head of state, all the other noises and all [...]

The top Pakistani nationalist, ex-winning cricket Captain and recent-wining conspirator Imran Khan read General Pasha’s message in his speech in Lahore in which he disclosed latest conspiracy namely memogate, co-produced by Mansoor Ijaz along with General Pasha. From that day, Imran has been getting wickets through his tsunamic bowling and clean [...]

Source: Pakistan Blogzine A Shia Muslim scholar Allama Jawad Naqvi exposes the Saudi-ISI plan to revive a repackaged version of General Zia-ul-Haq Group (Religio-political fascists) in Pakistan In this post, we present a thought provoking analysis by a Shia scholar on the re-emergence of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) with the [...]

State vs. Lamb Husain alias Ram Parkash. The court reminds you that you are under oath tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The petitioner Wolf Uddin has submitted to this full bench that you have conspired and collaborated with a foreign power to bring the armed forces of this great pasture into disrepute. You have [...]

We condemn the Pakistan army-backed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and his tribe in the Supreme Court on their ongoing attacks on the elected government and its various ministers and officials. Supreme Court is currently hearing a reference filed by President Asif Zardari under Article 186 (advisory jurisdiction of Supreme Court) of the [...]

  update: There has been alterations and additions made to accommodate few other articles on the same issue The Supreme Court has stated that under the Article 184-3, they have jurisdiction to hear the petition on alleged memo, because fundamental rights are directly involved. The three fundamental rights that are directly at issue [...]

Although confession is not a tradition in Pakistan but since restoration of judiciary few very prominent and impartial leaders of the lawyers’ movement have openly criticized the same judiciary which got freedom because of their sincere efforts. Some journalists and politicians were raising questions about the independence of judiciary even [...]

Memogate: Asma Jahangir ki nazar mein (Interview by Matiullah Jan, Dawn News) Leading Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir today quit as counsel for former envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani, in legal proceedings related to the memo scandal, saying she had "no confidence" in the commission formed by the Supreme Court to probe the matter. Jahangir, [...]

Partial Law is a part of Arshad Bhatti's forthcoming album that blends folk and faith under the banner of 'Alternate Beats: voices of passion & protest'. The present song asks the judiciary to refrain from lopsided and partial (in)justice against the elected parliament and let democracy breathe. http://youtu.be/icEH6BXydFc

Related post: Kayani and Iftikhar Chaudhry agree on Judicial Martial Law in January 2012 ہر گزرے دن افتخار چوہدھری کی زیر صدارت ترچھی نگاہوں والی نام نہاد آزاد عدلیہ پوری دنیا کے آگے بے نقاب ہوے چلی جا رہی ہے اور یہ بات روز روشن کی [...]

I had been a staunch supporter of the CJ during the lawyers’ and civil society’s movement. I even designed a flag for a Pakistan Justice Party and that flag was on my house for almost a year. I supported them because they stood against a dictator. Asma Jehangeer was then in the streets, too, for the restoration of the judiciary. But when [...]

I was going through the text of infamous petition of Mr. Nawaz Sharif , that "My Lord" has taken an immediate notice.  I realized if this was written by Nawaz Sharif himself and were "آئنی" and not "فرمایشی", then it would have been like this. I am sure "My Lord" will not have the courage to even read such petition. A Citizen of [...]

“no rebutting of charges, allegations to be considered correct” – Let’s go back to March 2007 The Supreme Court of Pakistan under the leadership of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry commenced proceedings in the “memogate” case on December 19, 2011. Heading a 9 member bench, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry commented that as the President (who [...]

“Justice” Abdul Hameed Dogar of “Dogar” court was just an addition to the long list of jokers who were always available to dictators in Pakistan.  Abdul Hameed Dogar was no worse than “Justice” Haleem, “Justice” Irshad Hassan Khan or “Justice” Shaikh Riaz. The Dogar court judges were weak in every sense of the word, there [...]

31 December 2011 is an important date in Pakistan’s judicial history. Not that a case is likely to be heard or that the government is going to be taken to task or the general public is going to be given relief, but a tender is likely to open for the repair of a 1953 vintage Woleseley car owned by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. According [...]

  Recently our fellow contributor and supporter, Peja Mistri wrote an excellent article titled “IMC – A monumental failure”. The article was written by Peja with apparent frustration due to the approach of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry’s conduct in court and the lofty hopes people had pinned with the restored judiciary. [...]

Everyone is criticizing Pakistan Army, military intelligence agencies, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif and innocent ex-Pakistani Chaudhry Mansoor Ijaz. To me being a Baloch this one sided criticism is panic creating. In the Naag area of Balochistan we don’t have ample of reputable newspapers like The Jang and The News to read and [...]

Yet again, a Chief Justice of Pakistan (Iftikhar Chaudhry) along with a Punjabi politician (Nawaz Sharif) is playing a dangerous game against democracy and Pakistan. Yet again, our holy guardians in GHQ (Generals Kayani et al) are pulling the real strings Nawaz Sharif's move to take memo issue to  the Supreme Court is an anti-democratic [...]

Once again Pakistan’s judiciary is playing the role of a political squad which is against democracy as well as against humanity. It is doing every effort to topple democracy - sometimes by trying to sabotage the constitution in the cover of baseless Swiss cases against the democratically elected President Zardari and sometimes by targeting [...]

The Judiciary in Pakistan was not free in the past and it is not independent now. The military has been using the Supreme Court of Pakistan as a rubber stamp but now there are serious questions about the integrity and impartiality of the Supreme Court. Acting as an arm of the army, the Supreme Court appears to have a political agenda and [...]

  FLASHBACK, Lahore, 1977: The early days of the 1977-88 martial law regime, as Pakistan’s first democratically elected prime minister and chairman of the Islamic Summit Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is in the dock on a “murder” charge as the (then) Chief Martial Law Administrator Gen Ziaul Haq goes about pronouncing ZAB guilty on the [...]

Big successes often turn into monumental failures and this is one such case. It does not matter whether CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (IMC) was hand in glove with Kyani in order to get rid of Pervez Musharraf, the point is people started putting faith in him.  In my observation, CJ IMC is probably the biggest failure in the history of Pakistan, [...]

Editor's Note: We are pleased to cross post this excellent article for DAWN Blogs by Nadeem Paracha.  Kudos to the Beygairat Brigade for their bold, audicious, subversive and darkly comic song on the prevailing Zeitgiest of the Urban elites. Just when one thought Pakistani pop music had eaten itself and choked on its own self-indulgences, [...]

Cross-posted from Pakistan Blogzine Related posts: On General Musharraf’s betrayal by General Kayani – by pejamistri PML-N’s NRO with Musharraf and secret meetings with General Kayani Critical analysts of Pakistani politics have always insisted that the restoration of CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry and his colleagues such as Khalil Ramday, [...]

Supreme Court’s Karachi verdict Abbas Zaidi No individual, party, or group (excepting Jamaat-e-Islami) has tried to read deeper into the Supreme Court’s verdict on Karachi’s law and order problem. It seems politically correct to shower praise on the verdict and express the desire to implement the guidelines given therein. The verdict, [...]

Related post: The LUBP Archive on Aitzaz Ahsan Aitzaz Ahsan's pronouncements are an appropriate indicator of what his real masters, Aabpara, want to implement.  Going against the explicit proposals of the elected Prime Minister Gillani, the royal servant of the Jihadi judges, Mr. Ahsan called on the army to restore peace in Karachi.  This [...]

  Note: FCS stands for fake civil society of Pakistan. In looking at the current civil awards announced by President Asif Ali Zardari, I am amazed as to how an elected government assumes it can reflect public opinion; I thought the army was the only institution that reflects the macho opinion of our martial race. Well, if they really [...]

  PART TWO Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But, there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He [...]

There is a rumour in market of politics that a round of talks had taken place between CJ's party Supreme League of Pakistan (SLOP) and Nawaz Sharif's party PMN-N during 2009. Both parties reached an agreement that Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry will resign at the end of 2011 and PML-N including other right wing political factions will offer him [...]

Related article: Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry: The new monkey in Lahore Supreme League of Pakistan SLOP's provincial head's another great decision in which the full quorum of SLOP's provincial body directed Mr. President to surrender office of PPP's co-chairperson and to stop political activities in the president's house. Let us remember [...]