Owais Mughal

Adil Najam

Back in November 2006 we had done a ‘Picture of the Day’ post about a banner over a Lahore road that had some interesting spelling typos (heading: ‘I Love Miss Spelling‘). This current picture from Islamabad, taken by reader Saad, reminded me of that post.

Adil Najam

Amongst the many things on my (very) long ‘to do list’ in Islamabad was a visit to the Supreme Court. I managed to cross that off the list.

I not only visited the outside of the Supreme Court but was able to negotiate my way into the (very) small Court Room Number 6 where the 5-judge bench was engrossed in the arguments about whether the current case (by the Chief Justice’s team against the President) should be heard by a full court or not.

It was a great day to be there. The issue was of substance and the big gun lawyers on both sides were there in full force, crammed into one of the smalled rooms in the court with nearly as many people standing as sitting. Miracle of miracles, I even got a set to sit on. And all this on a day when some very important issues were discussed and decided in our continuing constitutional crisis.