Damned if you do, damned if you don’t – Azad Media Zindabad
The Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani in the farewell meeting of the outgoing cabinet appreciated the efforts of his cabinet members in the last 3 years. He said “Today’s meeting is going to be the last meeting of the present cabinet. I can very proudly claim that your performance since March 31, 2008, remained very satisfactory given the very difficult circumstances under which we worked throughout this period.” However, the critics are not happy with this and spent almost all of the prime time on television ridiculing what the PM said. Remarks such as “Agar itni ache hee thee cabinet to dissolve kyoon kiya?” and “Yeh kehna kay 18th amendment kee wajah say aisa kiya hay, yeh ghalat hay kyoonkay yeh faisla agli cabinet say hona tha”. As they say, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
The way our media men conducted their programs last night was nothing less than sickening. What they wanted the PM to say was “H—-zadon, shukar khuda ka kay yeh kabeena kee aakhri mulaqat hay. Mujhay sharmindagy hay kay tum jaisay jahilon kay saath kaam kiya. Itnay achay haalat ko tum logon nay tabah kar diya. Jahannum mayn jao!”.
With the cabinet dissolved, we can only hope that a new cabinet is formulated at the earliest so that we don’t spend time unnecessarily speculating who is becoming and who is not. Off course, those who will be retained, will be criticized. Those who will be new inductees, will be criticized. And yes, Zardari is the bad man of Pakistan.
After yesterday’s programming, I have decided to retire to bed at 10 pm everyday so that I don’t have to endure nonsense any longer.
How are you able to watch these programs. I have stopped watching all a**hole hosted programs since at least one year.
They always used to say that its a very big cabinet and its waste of money, and now when cabinet is dissolved and pm wants small cabinet they still critisizing.every night they come to TV and critisize everything , give negatives picture of everything in the counrty.They will make everybody depress in this country.They sell miseries of the people.Last night shiekh eashid and imtran khan was in a show and the spoke for an hour so negative about everything.shiekh rashid said there is shortage of depression medicine in the country because people are too depressed. these anchors and media are prophets of doom.
Shame on CJ and Shame on Ansar Abbasi Published June 9, 2009 Articles http://fkpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/shame-on-cj-and-shame-on-ansar-abbasi/
We all heard about the recent meeting between CJ and Holbrooke that made no sense.
Well here is a meaningless @ss-covering being provided by none other than Ansar Abbasi:
Holbrooke-Iftikhar meeting approved by FO
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The meeting of US Special Envoy on Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke with Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was held following advice of the foreign office to the Supreme Court’s registrar.
‘Medal of Freedom’ or Slavery??
‘Medal of Freedom’ or Slavery??
While the meeting led to many tongues wagging, with some drawing their own conclusions and raising questions that in cases stretch out to the limits of conspiracy theories, it was neither a one-on-one meeting between the two nor anything bypassing the government’s foreign ministry.
Foreign Ministry sources as well as the registrar office of the Supreme Court confirmed to The News after the Supreme Court registrar received a request from the US embassy for Holbrooke’s desire to call on the chief justice of Pakistan, the matter was referred to the Foreign Ministry for advice.
The Foreign Ministry in its advice said the chief justice in his convenience could meet the visiting US special envoy and his delegation.The Foreign Ministry also deputed its two senior officials to be part of the Justice Iftikhar-Holbrooke meeting which, besides these foreign office officials, was also attended by Supreme Court Registrar Dr Faqir Hussain from the Pakistani side. Holbrooke was assisted by the US ambassador and members of his delegation.
Sources said Holbrooke told Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry that the purpose of his call was to pay a courtesy visit to the top judge of the country, who led a successful judicial movement in Pakistan.
Holbrooke, a foreign ministry source said, also disclosed to the chief justice US Secretary Hillary Clinton, who herself was a prominent lawyer, wanted him to meet Chief Justice Iftikhar during his visit to Pakistan. Holbrooke said he had come to the chief justice to pay his respect to the man, whom he had once watched on the television screen waving to the people after his release from house arrest last year.
Holbrooke said he has also been reading a lot about the efforts at ensuring speedy justice in Pakistan. During the meeting, Holbrooke also inquired about the judicial system of Pakistan, relationship between the judiciary and executive, the application of Islamic and common laws, etc.
The chief justice informed Holbrooke about the salient features of the recently-implemented National Judicial Policy and said the country’s judiciary is today independent. He also emphasised the need of separation of the judiciary from the executive and said the independent posture of the judiciary is a must.
Justice Iftikhar said the judiciary’s foremost effort is to end the backlog of cases and ensure quick justice for which the recently implemented National Judicial Policy is the first major step. The chief justice was also of the view that an independent judiciary is imperative for good governance, economic growth and development of the society.
Foreign Office sources said nothing regarding any particular case pending before the Supreme Court, including that of the missing persons or the NRO, came under discussion in the meeting.
That’s the best they have come up with so now you know there is more to the story.
Ansar
First of all Mr. Abbasi, you yourself state “the meeting led to many tongues wagging” (BTW: I think what you meant was “the meeting led to many jaws dropping”) so you you know it was for a valid reason — the meeting was totally inappropriate. So of course you cannot blame people for raising questions and it is dishonest of you to try and dismiss it as “conspiracy theories.”
Second, you state it was not a one-on-one meeting. That is not the issue. The issue is why was there a meeting at all? Of course you don’t answer it which shows you have no answer. Someone said “cj is not pakistan ambassador or foreign minister. he is a judge and it does not become him to discuss a sub-judice matter with a foreigner that too somebody he believes is a party to the case,” and I agree. Of course the writer is referring to earlier reports that the missing persons case was on the table. In fact it was the Registrar of the Supreme Court himself who stated:
‘Matters relating to judicial reforms as per national judicial policy and the whole judicial structure of Pakistan were discussed‘
(Remember this is a statement by the same Registrar — which we are now supposed to ignore — who “approved” this meeting — an excuse we are supposed to accept. (Does any one know if it is the the Registrar who holds so much sway as to who the CJ is supposed to meet and who to ignore??? I don’t think so!!!)
So stating now that no such thing happened is A BOLD-FACED LIE and Ansar is being a party to spreading this lie.; I also agree with Teeth Maestro when he states: “for matters of dignity and norms the Chief Justice should not have met a political official of the US Government, which has been responsible for kidnappings and ‘externments’ from Pakistan to say the least.”