Posts Tagged ‘Iftikhar Chaudhry’

Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has been restored and that is a most welcome development for all the right reasons in the world. Now the Zardari government should have space to move forward and address other pressing issues. And since the opposition has accepted the government’s decision as befitting, we could go back to a situation of more political [...]

There is much talk of an embattled and defeated man in the Presidency. The chief justice has (more...)

Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry restored as Chief Justice of PakistanMonday, March 16, 2009ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani early Monday morning announced reinstatement of the deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar (more...)

The PMLN’s policy of not recognising the “PCO Supreme Court” anticipated its decision to reject the verdict the Supreme Court reached Wednesday to disqualify the Sharif brothers. However, desperate to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif is trying to create law and order situation in the country, by encouraging his (more...)

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Ansar Abbasi admis that in Dr. Arsalan's case, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was involved in corruption.... He complains that PML-N, PPP, PML-Q, MQM, Jamaat (more...)

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry versus Chief Justice Abdul Hamid DogarWho is a hero and who is a zero?Why?Are we passive recipients of what media is injecting (more...)

For, updated report, click here:Ansar Abbasi with his venom against Chief Justice Abdul Hamid Dogar....It is interesting to note that in November 2008, conscience of the Editorial Board of the Jang Group made them to publish a concocted, maligning story against Chief Justice Abdul Hamid Dogar, however, in 2006, the same Editorial Board of the Jang [...]

(Daily Jang, 24 Nov 2008).Let us introduce our readers to another 'nanga':Ansar Abbasi was the first journalist to reveal the corruption of Chief Justice Iftikhar ChaudhryAlso:Evidence of Ansar Abbasi's lies

Aitzaz Ahsan explains his decisions in his email to Samad Khurram: Association with the PPP; the pace of the Lawyers' Movement; The Long March Dharna, and the war in FATA... Dated: September 18th 2008. To: Samad Khurram, Harvard. My dear Samad, I opened your mail yesterday and was deeply pained by it and by its tenor. Of late there [...]

Ansar Abbasi was the first one to malign Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry... Watch Capital Talk 12 Nov 2008 for evidence. The JUI Senator Dr. Soomro asks Ansar Abbasi in this program: "Tell me, whether your earlier report about the corruption of the Chief Justice was true? or whether your current stance in support of the Chief [...]

Top leaders of lawyers' movement drift apartLAHORE - Two top leaders of the lawyers’ movement Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan (leader of Pakistan Peoples Party) and Hamid Khan (leader of Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf) are backing different candidates for president seat in the upcoming election of the (more...)

THE mere locking of horns with the government is no more acceptable to lawyers in Lahore. They locked up the lower courts in the city on Nov 4. The Lahore High Court has taken suo motu notice of the extreme action and has angrily asked the Punjab government to do its duty of standing by the law. On Friday the case was adjourned for an indefinite [...]

LBA: be kind to citizensThe Lahore Bar Association (LBA) on Tuesday locked down the entire lower courts in Lahore, causing a lot of harassment to the litigant citizens. This was following the Black Day on Monday when the entire legal system of the country was more or less shut down. On Thursday (today), the weekly protest by the lawyers is [...]

gditpp Says:November 3rd, 2008 The depth of hatred of right wing urban central punjab against BB is amazing. Of 30 years of her political life she was in power for only five years. Compare it with 15 years of Sharifs in power and 20 years of military raj.Why Atezaz still remains in PPP:1. Atezaz is a democrat, PPP is the largest democratic [...]

Pakistanis once again reject Mullah Imran Khan, the notorious supporter of Taliban and Jamaat-e-IslamiMr. Muhammad Khaleeq reports from London:I did go to see what sort of protest can be organised by PTI of Imran Khan, I was not surprised to see only 20 supporters of a token presence. PTI and .....another website did publish the time and [...]

Charges of irresponsible journalism: Sympathies with TalibanIn the aftermath of the Marriott Hotel Bombing, Abbasi was criticized by various members of Pakistani society, for his, what was termed as "deflective" jornalism. For example, in its editorial on 22 September 2008, Daily Times wrote that:"Regrettably, there was some “deflective” [...]

Hundreds of acres of Army land given as bribe to JUI - Ansar Abbasi releases a new forged story, this time against Fazlur-Rehman. What is Fazlur-Rehman's crime? 1. He is part of the coalition government with PPP and ANP, thus foiling the negative plans of conspiracy theorists who do not want democracy to succeed in Pakistan.2. Fazlur-Rehman [...]

Do Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Imran Khan and other supportes of Iftikhar Chaudhry respect free judiciary? Or are they interested in only that kind of judiciary which can offer verdicts according to the the wishes of Jamaat-e-Islami, Tehreek-e-Insaf, and Taliban? Read the following news item in which Qazi shamelessly tried to pressurize the Supreme Court [...]

A tragic truth: Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Imran Khan etc have politicized the Chief Justice issues. No chance of Iftikhar's Chaudhry's restoration. By Abbas Ather (more...)

Saturday, November 01, 2008I waited for the results of the Kurd election with some trepidation. The government and the judges had put in their most fervent efforts against him. And it would not only be a mandate for him. It would also be a judgement on me. I too was under scrutiny. Thus when charged lawyers raised me on their shoulders as the [...]

The Vote CountIn the 2007 SCBA elections, the candidate opposing Aitzaz Ashan secured only 175 votes. In the 2008 (more...)

In his love with Imran Khan, Haroon-ur-Rashid has become blind. He is counting the number of flags of JUI and PPP. What does he think about the number of Imran Khan's PTI flags in the so called movement for the restoration of judiciary.He compares this 'storm-in-a-tea-cup' movement by only two parties, Imran Khan' PTI and Qazi Hussain Ahmed's [...]

SOME COMMENTSIs there no possibility that the majority of missing might have joined the cause of the taliban and fighting for them and are not allowed to returm. Some of them might have been killed. Some could have been handed over to the American.Why should we not look into all the possibilities. Musharaf is gone finished. If people think we [...]

In his op-ed in Daily Express, Abbas Ather exposes Ansar Abbasi, the notorious agent of the forces of darkness (i.e. the unholy nexus of Jamaat-e-Islami, ISI, and jihadi and sectarian organizations in Pakistan). It was Ansar Abbasi who released the first media report against the so-called corruption of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. [...]

What kind of reservations Asif Zardari might have about Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.... Here is a perspective by Abbas Ather (more...)

We never learn from history – 6By Ardeshir CowasjeeIN this God-given, Jinnah-founded country of ours it is safe to assume that the majority of those who manage to be elected to our assemblies, or appointed to positions of power, or to squirm their way into politics are shrewd enough to realise that they are actually good for nothing other than [...]

Ayaz Amir is the latest spokesman of the Taliban in the parliament. While pretending to be a neutral columnist, he always makes it a point to play to the gallery by criticizing the Pakistan's war on terror. Why does not Ayaz Amir resign from the PML(N)'s membership and then stage his 'neutral' criticism (more...)

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW REPORTReforming the Judiciary in PakistanIslamabad/Brussels, 16 October 2008: Return to civilian rule in Pakistan offers an opportunity to restore the rule of law and to reverse state-driven Islamisation, which has empowered Islamist radicals at the cost of the moderate majority.Reforming the Judiciary in [...]

According to one report, there are five challenges that the new President of Pakistan, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, will face. These are ones posed by rising militancy, a failing economy, fledgling democracy, conflict with India, and his own personal safety. More realistically, he is supposed “to respond to Western pressure to crack down on Taliban and [...]