Guest Post by Kruman
The single most important issue raised in the affidavit filed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was that the president did not have a reference from the Prime Minister when they met in the GHQ on March 9, 2007. The president has kept insisting that he merely performed his constitutional duty to forward the reference submitted by the Prime Minister to the SJC.
This statement by the president was challenged (by implication) in the affidavit filed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP). CJP’s affidavit stated that the president only had hand-written notes during their meeting on March 9th i.e. no reference had been submitted by the PM till then. This is a very serious allegation against the president as it implies that the presidential reference was prepared after the CJP refused to resign on March 9. It was expected that the PM would file an affidavit (in support of Musharraf’s position) clarifying that he (Shaukat Aziz) had submitted a reference to the president prior to the president/CJP meeting on march 9 2007.
Interestingly, Sharifuddin Pirzada stated this week in the Supreme Court hearings that if the reference was not forwarded by the PM then it should be nullified.
The affidavits filed by DG MI, DG IB and President’s Chief of Staff have circumvented the issue above. The most important player in this crisis, after the president and CJP, the Prime Minister has preferred to stay mum. All of these are ominous signs for the president, general Pervez Musharraf. In a meeting with his allies in the parliament he complained that he felt alone in the current crisis. His isolation seems to be growing.
Dillam dar aashiqi awarah shud, awara tar bada
Tanam as bay dilli baycharah shud, baychara tar badaMy heart is lost in love, may this state ever grow
I have gotten helpless in this state, may this helplessness ever grow
(Hazrat Amir Khusro)
If anyone wants to know the international perception about our PM they should read the latest book of Condaleeza Rice in which she has termed Shoukat Aziz as ‘Ladies Man’ and she also wrote that she refused to shake hands with him. She further wrote that Shoukat Aziz tried to use all of his charm on ‘her’. Anyway it only shows that how much serious our PM is in his job
Imran Khan Interview;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/avconsole/bb_wm_fs.shtml ?nbram=1&nbwm=1&ws_storyid=070612_imran_int&ws_pa thtostory=http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/wsindex/int/av/u rdu/-/urdu/news/avfile/2007/06/&bbram=1&bbwm=1&lan g=ur
If link does not come OK then it is on beebeecee main page right now.
What do you expect from Musharaff who failed to get admitted to engineering/medical school and got Commission in the corrupt army of Ayub Khan. His prime minister Shaukat Aziz a fellow St. Patrick school alumni also could not make the grade. He used his inluential connections to get a job in the Citibank. In those days Citbank only hired sons/nephews of well connected persons. I know this because I walked the streets of Karachi/Lahore with the much prized engineering degree but without any connections during the same period. US provided me a home where connections did not matter.
symk,
I think we have to end this practice of importing expat Pakistanis from World bank, Citibank etc. These people only serve the banking fraternity and oblige their western masters by privatising national assets at throwaway prices.
I think shaukat aziz had an axe to grind since he was humiliated by CJ when his blunderous privitization of Steel mills was exposed. I am confident that shortcut did that on purpose to reward his business friends since not a single inquiry was done to know the facts about that dubious sell off of the steel mills and no one was held responsible for it. I hope whoever comes in power will hold a judicial inquiry into this fiasco.