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Don’t Play Jokes, Farooq H. Naek

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Charlie Chaplin would have been proud of the silly smile Farooq H. Naeek gives to the media while talking about the reinstatement of the judiciary. He has recently been ignominiously turned down by the deposed judges, when he asked them to get fresh appointments.
Almost 60 judges were deposed on Nov. 2. Then some took oath […]



Where is Salary of Judges?

By Rohail Butt • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In yet another grim revelation of how tied up and powerless the co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, Asif Ali Zardari is; the issue of giving salaries to deposed judges of Pakistan since Nov. 2 has become yet another Achilles Heel for the PPP government.
In order to score some points, Zardari announced the release of the […]



Why Not Committee For NRO?

By Sameer Shaharyar • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Asif Ali Zardari can take sacred bath in the shower of National Reconciliation Ordinance with relish and without uttering a faint squeal, but he cannot let the people of Pakistan take shower in the blessings of free justice.
When Pervez Musharraf gave him the bait of NRO, he jumped at it, and never demanded the extension […]



Aitezaz Gets Ticket of NA-55

By Ali Yar Khan • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics

President Supreme Court Bar Association, Aitezaz Ahsan has eventually and expectedly got the Pakistan People’s Party ticket for the NA-55 constituency of Rawalpindi and despite of so many speculations, this end was expected and the truth is that PPP had no other option but to nominate Aitezaz from here.
Mian Nawaz Sharif, the chief of PML-N […]



Judges Restoration : Breakup or Breakthrough

By Salman Mugsi • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Though Jamat Islami leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed thinks that breakup of People’s Party and Muslim League-N coalition would strengthen the dictatorship, but the ground realities say that their breakup would pose a real battle ground for the dictatorship.
The delaying tactics by PPP in the reinstatement of judges and the way they have tried to postpone […]



Legal Committee for Judges Crumbling

By Sameer Shaharyar • May 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

After the resignation of Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim from the legal committee for the judges, Aitzaz Ahsan, the president of Supreme Court Bar Association has also expressed his disappointment over the proceedings. He has told law minister Farooq H. Naek that if committee doesn’t finalize the recommendations today, then he would also leave the committee.
The reason […]



Fakhrauddin G. Ibrahim Quits

By Salman Mugsi • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Former Governor of Sindh and a very well known lawyer of the country, Fakhrauddin G. Ibrahim has resigned from the legal committee discussing the reinstatement of deposed judges. He has resigned from the committee at a very critical juncture, when the whole nation waits for the second deadline of 12th May.
Fakhrauddin G. Ibrahim has refused […]



Minus Two Formula by PPP : Nation Boils in Anger

By Rohail Butt • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

When the whole country was on fire due to the stubborn policies of Musharraf, and when both PML-N and PPP were under the axe and Musharraf was using every trick in the bag to harm them, March 9, 2007 heralded new hope in Pakistan and rendered these parties a new life. Political parties also struggled […]