Showing posts with label Chief Justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chief Justice. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Sunday, 12 February 2012

"LIES", Lawyers Movement & Chief Justice.

                                                                          “Historic”, we are being told — and told without end — is what the judgment of their Supreme Court lordships is. General (r) Pervez Musharraf’s Nov 3, 2007, action has been declared “unconstitutional” and “civil society” is ecstatic, some of our wilder drumbeaters assuring us that the doors on military interventionism have been closed forever. Ah, if wishes were horses. The Supreme Court judgment not so much revises history as cuts it up, wrapping it in neat packages. For it declares only one action of Musharraf’s unconstitutional — his Nov 3 Emergency, which came at the fag end of his rule. The inescapable conclusion we are left with is that everything else the man did fell within the ambit of the

PCOed, Biased, Prejudiced Chief Justice on PCO Judges

HYDERABAD: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jehangir condemned the apex court's decision to revoke the status of PCO judges. "Such 'panchayti' judgments are not acceptable," Asma said, while addressing lawyers at the Hyderabad district bar. Terming the order a 'third degree treatment' in police parlance, she equated weapons used for torturing detainees by the police with the judges' pens. "This pen is not for settling your personal rivalries," she said in reference of the Supreme Court judgement authored by the chief justice. She reminded the chief justice of the promises made to the bar after he was deposed. Asma also criticised Parliament and termed democracy "a change of faces" and accused generals of calling the shots. "Our chequered history testifies that their decisions have been a failure." Asma questioned if judges are appointed on merit. According to her, judges from minority communities are also being discriminated against. REFERENCE: PCO judges: Asma hits out at SC decision By Z Ali Published: May 19, 2011

 http://tribune.com.pk/story/171780/voice-of-dissent-asma-hits-out-at-sc-decision/