It’s Change Idiots
Though it’s useless to talk about anything sensible about PML-Q, but they are normally make a nice fodder for blog posts. Their public meetings, close door party caucuses, whining of lotas in the media, mumblings of their leaders, sadistic and threatening tone of their aspirant Prime Minister, and the colorful scandals all add up to a mounting heap of dung purely attributed to them.
Just watch the glimpse of their public meetings in the Punjab, and you would know what I am referring about. In their speeches, from top to bottom, all the candidates of PML-Q boast about their “brilliant” performance of their yesteryears, and they ask nation that if nation really would like to carry on this sparkling journey of progress and peace, then PML-Q should get their votes.
So they want to carry on with the price hike, hoarding, profiteering, corruption, lawlessness, street crimes, lotacracy, and denying nation of its basic and civil rights, curbing of media and judiciary and making fun of Pakistan domestically and internationally.
They are not naïve and neither are they dimwits. They know that nation wants change, and wants it real quick and profound. They know that we like our Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary, because he talked about change. People like Aitezaz Ahsan because he stood up against junta and demanded change. They love Kurd, Munir A. Malik and other lawyers because all of them are suffering through Police-Gurdi after they struggled for change.
Change is bound to come, and the forces of status quo will be wiped out by it, and you won’t even hear their screams.
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- Whose Writ is This - August 26th, 2008
- So They Parted - August 26th, 2008
- New Alignments - August 24th, 2008
- Vindicated Operartion in Swat - August 24th, 2008
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January 10th, 2008 01:13 GMT
Change my friend, is the only thing that is inevitable. Almost always, change is for the better. However, what you label as change, sorry to break it to you, is nothing of the sort.
Our “former” chief justice, and Mr. Aitezaz who you so generously gift the title of “fore bearers of change”, are nothing more than opportunistic narcissists who had no intention of serving progressive change to Pakistan and its people.
If I have managed to keep you interested this far, I will now attempt to make my case.
Firstly, let’s take care of Mr. Aitezaz. The gentleman has managed to gather some limelight immediately after the whole Chief Justice fiasco took place. Infamously renowned as the “driver” of the white landcrusier that carried the damsel in distress to safety, Mr. Aitezaz spared no opportunity to capture the attention of the masses as, the Superhero of Judicial freedom.
Now, the question that most people, such as you, don’t ask is “what did Mr. Aitezaz do prior to his role as the judicial superhero?”
Mr. Aitezaz was a member of the opposition. Yes he did run in the same elections that brought about the PML-Q dominated government, accepted its results, took his seat and sat pretty for eight years under the leadership of President Musharraf.
Since Mr. Aitezaz is such a “believer” of judicial activism, and the freedom of the Judicial system is right up there on the totem pole for him, why did he do nothing to further these causes prior to the chief justice fiasco? Why did he suddenly become so active? Was there no need for judicial freedom and/or activism prior to recent event? Why couldn’t Mr. Aitezaz to not lead a lawyers’ movement last year, or the year before that, or the year before that? Why did Mr. Aitezaz never raise a bill in either of the houses of parliament, which he was a member of, that called for greater judicial independence and safeguards? What did Mr. Aitezaz do for the last five years as he sat in the opposition? What did he do?
As far as the so called lawyers’ movement is concerned, one is disgraced to see the vanguards of legal juris prudence act as common thugs. All that legal education seems to have gone to waste. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a lawyer too, so was Mohandas Gandhi. They never lifted a finger in freeing the entire subcontinent from centuries of colonial rule. Most of Pakistan’s legal frat, at least the ones we saw on TV, couldn’t come up with better means of expressing themselves. Two lawyers from this subcontinent freed an entire continent without any semblance of confrontationalism, and thousands of lawyers half a century later could do no better than burn buildings, cars, and cause general anarchy. It is change in deed my friend, but it is change that is not welcome.
As far as the former chief justice is concerned, well he must have made some significant achievements in his life to become the chief justice of Pakistan. For this reason alone, that he is the former and was then the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr. Chaudry Iftikhar deserves our respect. He did however, have a Presidential reference passed against him, so that may have raised a few eyebrows regarding his stature, but even so, the level of respect remained since he was the chief justice of Pakistan. Even after all attempts are made to proving his guilt, the Supreme Judicial council deems the former chief justice fit for maintaining his office. For this, his level of respect amongst all Pakistanis goes higher.
However, having said all this, now we come to the part where Mr. Chaudry Iftikhar, looses any semblance of support from the people of this country.
A Judge, by virtue, must remain a-political. As the saying goes, justice is blind. The saying DOES NOT go justice is biased. Mr. Former chief justice excessively involved himself in politics. The dramas that he orchestrated, such as the 24 hour drives to Lahore, his horribly orated speeches, obvious alignment with a political party, vindictiveness, excessive involvement in the state apparatus, and whimsical decision making are just some of the obvious reasons why Mr. Iftikhar was unfit to act as the guardian of justice in Pakistan. Mr., Iftkhar like Mr. Aitizaz wanted to be a superhero.
He forgot that in the “real world” his role is to protect and interpret the law. His actions, specifically regarding the presidential elections, were not only an insult to the elected president but also to the will of the people of Pakistan. It makes no sense to disallow a candidate from running in an election once you have allowed him to participate and win. It is as if Pakistan plays India, Pakistan wins, and the umpires say that, “well boys, you have won but we still have to decide if you could play India or not”. What utter nonsense. The gentleman got what he deserved.
As a parting remark, allow me to draw your, and every reader’s, attention to a simple fact. (provided that you have ventured this far into the text). No popular movement has ever been curtailed by any repressive government or force of nature. Popular movements are based on principled stands and values common to all its participants. Thus arresting or removing a single leader or member does no harm. People believe in a cause not a person. Examples include, the French Republic, Civil rights movement in the USA, Pakistan, Christianity, Palestine, Gender equality, Kashmir, and need I say it, Islam.
January 10th, 2008 21:40 GMT
Look, everyone at one time or another did nothing when they should have been doing something. Even Mr. Jinnah was at one time the supporter of a united India. When he saw that Muslims would never get their rights in an Indian federation, he decided to press for Pakistan. As late as 1946, he supported a government made up of Congress and Muslim League (Liaquat Ali Khan was the Finance Minister in that government). So to blame Aitzaz Ahsan for not indulging in judicial activism when he was member of the opposition is wrong. Firstly, the time was not ripe, and secondly, at that time Musharraf was not as unpopular as he now is. When Musharraf went too far and sacked the C.J., Aitzaz Ahsan had no choice but to lead the lawyers’ protests. Pakistan really needs people like him and the Iftikhar Choudhry. As for whether they did it to further their own ends, history will be the best judge.