CJ Chaudhry activates right wing lobby in the media against Senator Faisal Raza Abidi – by Ali Asad
Usman Manzoor, a dubious reporter of a dubious newspaper The News (of Mir Shakil, Najam Sethi, Ansar Abbasi, Ahmad Noorani etc), has come out like a paid spokesperson of pro-Taliban Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. (Other dubious pro-establishment media persons e.g., Kamran Shahid, Ansar Abbasi etc too have been activated to malign Senator Abidi.)
Without reproducing excerpt of 206 page document that was distributed by Faisal Raza Abidi in the Senate, Usman just denies everything. In his tirade against the Senator he even belies his own benefactor who had categorically stated holding the Holy Book that he had taken loan from HBFC and spent the same to arrange walima of his son.
He is forgetting the fact that Iftikhar Chaudhry or as the case may be The Supreme Court has avoided any contempt of court proceedings against the senator. The assertions that the CJ was actually the beneficiary of the money looted from Malik Riaz by his son was only denied with a lame excuse that the CJ did not give relief to Malik Riaz.
Will Usman Manzoor have courage to clearly state the implicit corollary: Does Chief Justice give relief to people after taking money?
Let us see what Usman Manzoor says in today’s The News:
Faisal Abidi distributing unsubstantiated material against CJ
ISLAMABAD: What a top PPP leader’s henchman is distributing among media persons — claiming that it is a reference against the Chief Justice of Pakistan — is nothing but a cluster of lies, manipulated facts, useless documents, a few opinion pieces, letters to the editor, news stories and a few documents which Gen (retd) Musharraf tried to use against the CJ in 2007 but badly failed.
This was propagated as a bombshell but proved not even a cracker. The 206-page so-called “Research conducted by Senator Faisal Raza Abidi” is propaganda material, which purposefully attacks the judiciary through the media for its anti-corruption stance as the said senator has been doing the same for the last few months on various television channels. This so-called research has not been filed as a reference in the Supreme Judicial Council yet. Or perhaps those in whose hands are the strings of the said senator know the ‘worth’ of the material against the CJ.
This unsubstantiated material distributed among the media persons by the Pakistan People’s Party contains newspaper articles written by columnists famous for their affiliation with the ruling party. This research appears to be of similar in nature to the material produced against Dr Arsalan Iftikhar in the Supreme Court in June this year.
The PPP didn’t hesitate to attach letters to the editors complaining delay in justice in the lower judiciary and third rated blogs written by such elements who deem it their duty to malign the judiciary for vested interests.
Statements of Asma Jahangir and Attorney General Irfan Qadir, people known for their anti-judiciary stance, have also been annexed with the ‘material’ in which the judiciary has been criticised.
Reports of international media written by Pakistani correspondents are also part of the propaganda material against the CJ. The foreign media and their correspondents never miss a single opportunity to please their masters and malign Pakistan’s judiciary. A report of International Commission of Jurists has been attached with the “material” which has recommended that the Supreme Court should ‘adopt rules setting out the criteria for the use of suo moto procedures and for the allocation of cases to benches. The PPP is annoyed with the suo moto notices because these notices have not let anyone loot public money.
The standard of PPP research against CJ could well be judged by the fact that it contains a document, which says the Chief Justice has availed the facility of house building loan, a facility every government employee is entitled to. The Chief Justice has taken loan from a private corporation and has never availed loan from House Building Finance Corporation, so this allegation is baseless and concocted.
The material has also ridiculously hurled an allegation that the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary has taken oath under PCO in 2000 despite the fact that the entire nation including PPP leaders stood behind the CJ after March 9, 2007 and got him restored on July 20, 2007. The PPP has forgotten that there was no restraining order passed by any judge/bench in 2000 that barred taking oath under the PCO, as was the case on November 3, 2007. The PPP also seems to have forgotten that the entire nation stood with the CJ on March 16, 2009 when despite reluctance the PPP government had to restore him with effect from November 3, 2007.
The so-called research by PPP also contains some useless documents regarding air tickets, travel record of Ahmad Ali Riaz, bank statement of the Chief Justice house and passport of Arsalan Iftikhar.
The PPP has once again tried to raise a dead issue only to malign the Chief Justice that his son Arsalan Iftikhar got rapid promotions in 2006. This issue was settled in 2007 when Musharraf filed a reference against the Chief Justice and which a 13-member bench of the Supreme Court had later rejected.
Here’s a link to Senator Abidi’s speech in the Senate:
http://www.zemtv.com/2012/10/19/faisal-raza-abidi-speech-in-senate-19th-october-2012/
The speech is also available on Youtube:
http://youtu.be/1zigpxQmO5U
One has appreciate the guts of Faisal. But with just over a year left in Imc retirement, he should be left to die his natural death. After dec 2013 he will be a worthless man. Any action against him right now will give the right wing another opportunity to get together to hail him as a hero.
CJP angry at delay in PIA flight
http://epaper.dawn.com/~epaper/DetailImage.php?StoryImage=21_10_2012_002_002
LAHORE, Oct 20: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday took strong notice of delay in PIA`s flights and reprimanded the officers of the national flag carrier.
The CJP summoned all the officers of PIA available at Lahore International Airport after he had to wait for at least three hours at the airport to take his flight for Karachi.
The chief justice was scheduled to fly on flight PK303 at 11am, however, the flight took off at 2:30pm.
The chief justice said delay in PIA flights had become a routine matter. He pointed out that his flight from Islamabad to Lahore on Friday had also failed to take off on-time.
The flight (PK-303) was delayed due to a fault in hydraulic system of the aircraft, said a PIA officer, who was among those summoned by the CJP at departure lounge of the Lahore airport.
The officer, on condition of anonymity, said engineers were called from Karachi to remove the fault.
The downloadable link for Faisal Raza Abidi’s speech in the senate on 10 Oct. is
http://www.metacafe.com/…/senator_faisal_raza_abidi_speech_in_senate_a...
This reporter is a big time chootiya. BC cannot write a single sentence and publishes crap.
Firstly, Hon’ble Chief Justice is not a controversial person rather one of the most respected citizens of this nation. What the journalist has said is 100% right. It is not the government role to send uncivilized unworthy speakers to media program threatening the judiciary with reference. If there is any strong ground against the Hon’ble Chief Justice, Govt. shoud just file it.
Faisal Raza Abidi just know speaking and shouting no matter how worthless he is. In one programee he was showing a number of pages and calling them reference against CJ and blaming that this was decided with short order. Actually it was not a reference rather petition against reference filed by CJ through Chaudhary Aitizaz Ahsan Advocate. This is how Abidi deceives the nation. The chap not worth listening.
May ALLAH Bless Chief Justice and we as a nation are with him
Chief Justice is just a fraud. There are ample proofs of corruption against his son and Chief Justice himself. He should be tried against all charges raised by Senator Raza Abidi. Why Chief Justice is not ready to try the Senator, because he knows that once Pandora box is open then he will have no place to live on the face of this earth.