Judicial
By Emaad Qureshi Emaad.qureshi@gmail.com
09March 2007 Friday was just another day when a presidential reference was filed against sitting Chief Justice according to article 209 of the constitution of Pakistan on the charges of corruption and misconduct. Then this reference became the cause for lawyers’ movement .They say they are struggling for the independence of judiciary but critics have some concerns about this movement.
Critics say that why the deposed Chief justice Ifthikar Choudry was silent when political parties were trying to politicize this entire legal issue. When political parties were trying to convert this legal movement into Anti-Musharaff movement why he was silent? They were hoisting their party flags on his car and were arranging huge rallies for deposed Chief justice but why he never refused them?
Then came the series of Suo muo notices, Judges were issuing suo muo notices to administration for their every action e.g. Traffic jams, inflation etc but no Suo muo notice to Ex-Chief justice who was attending huge political rallies and who was becoming cause one of the biggest traffic jam of Pakistan’s history while traveling Islamabad to Lahore.
Then came the historic judgment of 20th July in which 15 member larger bench of Supreme Court declared Ex-Chief Justice Ifthikar Choudry innocent and reinstated him on his previous post. On that day everyone was happy and chanting the mantra of Independent judiciary and that now doctrine of necessity is buried forever. In August 2007 Supreme Court gave orders to release PML-N leader Makhdom javaid Hashmi from jail, again same voices of Independent Judiciary were coming out from everywhere.
In last week of August 2007 Supreme Court declared that PML-N leader can come to Pakistan and no one can stop him from coming to Pakistan, then again same voices of Independent Judiciary were coming out from everywhere.
Then Sher afgan niazi leader of Government spoke against the decision of Supreme Court in an interview with a private TV Channel, on this statement Supreme Court issued suo muo notice to Sher afgan of contempt of court.
Then Supreme Court allowed President General Pervaiz Musharaff to contest elections of President for the second time, this time surprisingly lawyers started protesting against this decision and many lawyers were tearing apart the decision papers in front of whole media, but this time Supreme Court issued no suo muo notice to any lawyer…but why?was that not contempt of court?? One more thing why they were protesting against this decision? Was that not a decision by an Independent Judiciary? Why this time they were not accepting this decision?
These type of things raises doubt in the eyes of common public and educated class that is this movement is for Independence of Judiciary or it has some other motives??
Writer is Political and Economic Commentator based is Rawalpindi
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Issues
Published in Pakistan Observer 12 June 2008By Emaad Qureshi Emaad.Qureshi@gmail.com
Actually they want to divert public attention from the real issues like Inflation, Power shortage, Law and order etc, this is why they are dragging the issue of reinstatement of deposed judges .This is what an old man was saying when I asked him about his opinion on recent political scenario. This is what masses of Pakistan are thinking about the recent political situation in Pakistan.
We daily listen politicians saying and they don’t tired of saying that “The issue of deposed judges is a national issue and public is really curious about this issue” but when we go into streets and do survey about public opinion we discover altogether different situation. People are curious about next meal, how will they get that? Flour that was Rs15/kg some days ago now is Rs 20/kg, 20 Kg Bag that was Rs300 is now Rs 375. If we talk about Rice it was Rs60 to 70 per Kg some days ago but now it is more than Rs100/Kg.
Power shortage is another grave problem faced by our country, is hurting our industry and especially our general public very badly.Goverment should solve this problem as early as possible because general public can’t afford generators as their prices are now touching skies. New government has promised to add 3000MW of electricity in next one year lets see what happens.
Public is really puzzled about the situation on ground, on one day our politicians say that all is decided only we have to sign the agreement but other day Ruling Coalition breaks, if everything is decided then why so much delay? Need of hour is that politicians should solve this Judicial issue as early as possible because our public wants solution of this problem very soon and they want attention of our rulers towards their real problems such as inflation, power crisis, law and order. After all our public has given them huge mandate in the Elections 2008 to solve their problems.
Writer is Political and Economic commentator based in Rawalpindi
Actually they want to divert public attention from the real issues like Inflation, Power shortage, Law and order etc, this is why they are dragging the issue of reinstatement of deposed judges .This is what an old man was saying when I asked him about his opinion on recent political scenario. This is what masses of Pakistan are thinking about the recent political situation in Pakistan.
We daily listen politicians saying and they don’t tired of saying that “The issue of deposed judges is a national issue and public is really curious about this issue” but when we go into streets and do survey about public opinion we discover altogether different situation. People are curious about next meal, how will they get that? Flour that was Rs15/kg some days ago now is Rs 20/kg, 20 Kg Bag that was Rs300 is now Rs 375. If we talk about Rice it was Rs60 to 70 per Kg some days ago but now it is more than Rs100/Kg.
Power shortage is another grave problem faced by our country, is hurting our industry and especially our general public very badly.Goverment should solve this problem as early as possible because general public can’t afford generators as their prices are now touching skies. New government has promised to add 3000MW of electricity in next one year lets see what happens.
Public is really puzzled about the situation on ground, on one day our politicians say that all is decided only we have to sign the agreement but other day Ruling Coalition breaks, if everything is decided then why so much delay? Need of hour is that politicians should solve this Judicial issue as early as possible because our public wants solution of this problem very soon and they want attention of our rulers towards their real problems such as inflation, power crisis, law and order. After all our public has given them huge mandate in the Elections 2008 to solve their problems.
Writer is Political and Economic commentator based in Rawalpindi
Spoiled Child or Mishandled Child?
Published in Frontier Post June 08 2008
By Emaad Qureshi Emaad.qureshi@gmail.com
“He will certainly perform in front of glamorized girls” These remarks are for Shoaib akhtar by our own Left arm wizard Waseem Akram in a recent interview on Sports Channel, when he was asked about expected performance of Shoaib akhtar in Upcoming twenty 20 championship (IPL) being played in India. There is no doubt about the bowling abilities of the star bowler Shoaib akhtar but in recent times he is among lot of controversies more than anything else.
If we go back in recent times we will see Shoaib Akhtar involved in so many controversies, more than any cricketer in the world. He was always involved in controversies throughout his career but in last 3 to 4 years we see him more involved in controversies than Cricket.
If we talk about the controversies, first it was during much hyped test series between Pakistan and India in 2004, when during last test he was accused of showing lack of commitment for his team when he was out there for bowling. Critics allege that he was not unfit, actually he was pretending to be. Nevertheless he was cleared by the medical board of Pakistan Cricket Board later. Then it was in January 2005 during all important Australian tour in which he was caught red-handed dancing in Nightclub with girls in Sydney. He was penalized this time on the grounds of indiscipline.
Next it was turn of Mohammad Asif along with Shoaib Akhtar ,both involved in most dangerous controversy of Pakistan’s cricket history. They have to return back from India when they both were tested positive for Performance enhancing Drug during dope tests conducted by Pakistan Cricket board. They were trailed by inquiry commission formed by Pakistan Cricket Board and banned for two years.Shoaib Akhtar & Mohammad Asif cleared later by Appellate Tribunal after hearing their appeals.
In January 2007 during test series against South Africa, it was in 2nd test when he performed really well and was instrumental in Pakistan’s win but again he faced lot of fitness problems, sent back to Pakistan. In that test at the end of Pakistan’s ist innings he was involved in heated debate with Late Bob Woolmer.
Then in September 2007 just before the ICC Twenty 20 world Cup in South Africa, he was again sent back to Pakistan. This time Shoaib akhtar was involved in a very funny incident, a childish fight with Mohammad Asif and Shahid Afridi.This time he was fined heavily but again cleared later.
In 2008 while giving interview to Newspaper he criticized very badly the Cricket board for not maintaining good standards of domestic cricket. This time he was again trialed in front of inquiry commission by Cricket Board and banned for 5 years from any type of cricket but allowed him to play for IPL( International Premier League), a Twenty 20 Cricket Tournament being played in India. His inquiry is still going on.
Question is Is he a spoiled or mishandled child, some people say he was not properly handled by the Cricket board but if we analyze very carefully then we will see that most of the times Shoaib akhtar was on fault, right from the dancing in nightclub to childish fight with Mohammad Asif. He has more germs of Spoiled Child.Now you will decide am i wrong or right??
Writer is Editor of Online Magazine “The Rise”
By Emaad Qureshi Emaad.qureshi@gmail.com
“He will certainly perform in front of glamorized girls” These remarks are for Shoaib akhtar by our own Left arm wizard Waseem Akram in a recent interview on Sports Channel, when he was asked about expected performance of Shoaib akhtar in Upcoming twenty 20 championship (IPL) being played in India. There is no doubt about the bowling abilities of the star bowler Shoaib akhtar but in recent times he is among lot of controversies more than anything else.
If we go back in recent times we will see Shoaib Akhtar involved in so many controversies, more than any cricketer in the world. He was always involved in controversies throughout his career but in last 3 to 4 years we see him more involved in controversies than Cricket.
If we talk about the controversies, first it was during much hyped test series between Pakistan and India in 2004, when during last test he was accused of showing lack of commitment for his team when he was out there for bowling. Critics allege that he was not unfit, actually he was pretending to be. Nevertheless he was cleared by the medical board of Pakistan Cricket Board later. Then it was in January 2005 during all important Australian tour in which he was caught red-handed dancing in Nightclub with girls in Sydney. He was penalized this time on the grounds of indiscipline.
Next it was turn of Mohammad Asif along with Shoaib Akhtar ,both involved in most dangerous controversy of Pakistan’s cricket history. They have to return back from India when they both were tested positive for Performance enhancing Drug during dope tests conducted by Pakistan Cricket board. They were trailed by inquiry commission formed by Pakistan Cricket Board and banned for two years.Shoaib Akhtar & Mohammad Asif cleared later by Appellate Tribunal after hearing their appeals.
In January 2007 during test series against South Africa, it was in 2nd test when he performed really well and was instrumental in Pakistan’s win but again he faced lot of fitness problems, sent back to Pakistan. In that test at the end of Pakistan’s ist innings he was involved in heated debate with Late Bob Woolmer.
Then in September 2007 just before the ICC Twenty 20 world Cup in South Africa, he was again sent back to Pakistan. This time Shoaib akhtar was involved in a very funny incident, a childish fight with Mohammad Asif and Shahid Afridi.This time he was fined heavily but again cleared later.
In 2008 while giving interview to Newspaper he criticized very badly the Cricket board for not maintaining good standards of domestic cricket. This time he was again trialed in front of inquiry commission by Cricket Board and banned for 5 years from any type of cricket but allowed him to play for IPL( International Premier League), a Twenty 20 Cricket Tournament being played in India. His inquiry is still going on.
Question is Is he a spoiled or mishandled child, some people say he was not properly handled by the Cricket board but if we analyze very carefully then we will see that most of the times Shoaib akhtar was on fault, right from the dancing in nightclub to childish fight with Mohammad Asif. He has more germs of Spoiled Child.Now you will decide am i wrong or right??
Writer is Editor of Online Magazine “The Rise”
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