Dustbin Bus service; Quetta to London

There can be hardly anyone who doesn’t know about the international services like rail service and air service. Especially the Bus service between India and Pakistan has been in the limelight and has got immense media coverage. Now recently the Domestic Dustbin Bus has extended its services. It now proudly calls itself as International Dustbin Service (IDS). Please my English readers forgive me for Urdu style but for your information it’s for this dustbin bus story only although the service has always been international and previously operated domestically.

 The copies answering copies of BISE Quetta were sold by a boy, Pakistan’s leading TV channel Geo News reported.

 The answering copies of FA exams, held two months ago under the Baluchistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Quetta (BISE), were sold by a boy by nine rupees per kilogram.

The owner of Roti shop Naik Muhammad tells that a boy brought those copies last month to sell them on a scrap shop but as he found scrap shop closed so I bought them from him by 9 rupees per kilogram which completely weighted 11 kilograms.

 Whereas in London there was no such boy or Tandoor Wala so the rare copy of American Declaration of Independence was thrown to the dusts in BRITAIN’S National Archive.

 The Daily Mail reports;

 The document that changed history was approved on July 4, 1776, and this is one of only 26 copies known to have survived out of 200 printed that night. The poster size proclamation is in perfect condition and is said to be worth £5million.

 The Quetta’s Examination answering paper, though, were sold just for 99 rupees were not worthless. The exams papers of BISE Quetta were solved by the students who are still waiting for the result.

The US Declaration, which helped establish the guiding principles of modern democracy, was written mainly by U.S. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson and is described by historians as ‘America’s birth certificate’. 

It is not certain how the newly discovered copy came into British hands, but it is likely to have been captured by the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War which continued for seven years after the Declaration of Independence was signed. The last discovery of a Dunlap print was at a flea market in 1989, and it sold at auction in 2000 for £4.94million.  Despite its value, the National Archives said it will not be selling the print, although it might be loaned to former foes in the U.S.

 To listen the excuse for throwing an important document into a dump store will laugh you all. The spokesman of National Archives cleverly says;

 ’It’s amazing that it has been lying here for so long undetected. It just shows how many documents we have.’

But what excuse by the chairman of BISE Quetta? The rare copy of American past was thrown to the dust by a former foe British and Not Americans but who did sold the examination copies of our future? The boy? Ridiculous. The competent authority should look into the matter, point out the criminals and punish them to give out the message that “the future of our country is not less important”

 

Decision to Double MNA’s DF; under the theme No More Poor, No More Poverty

The Wikipedia Define Legislature;

A type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to create and change laws.

QandA encyclopedia define legislature;

Representative assembly empowered to enact statute law.

Princeton University’s website defines it;

legislature, ( legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers) persons who make or amend or repeal laws.

 Business words defines legislature;

A lawmaking body, as in: The legislature meets in the state capital.

 And legislator;

 Member of a lawmaking body.

Read all available definitions of legislature and you will find it is a body to make legislation while its members are involved in the process of legislation by passing bills. Their main Job is “to make and amend laws.”

In Pakistan the legislator either sleep or remain absent during the session of parliament. Their main Job is to do the developmental work. In my view our MPs deserve to be called councilors or community workers, although they given the funds very few spend that on the community welfare.

It would be injustice to call them legislator as their work is to construct roads, bridges and schools. Every year a large sum in the name of development fund is issued to the MNAs and MPAs in Pakistan. These funds are a bounty for the MNAs to cover their expenses being spent during the electioneering. But all this is not what I wanted to share.

The disturbing story is that Government has decided to double the development funds of MNAs in these troubled times. The Dawn reads;

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani apparently shrugged off economic woes for a while in the National Assembly on Tuesday to give a windfall to the lower house members by doubling their annual development fund to Rs20 million each on the eve of the new fiscal year. He gave no reason for the increase announced in a single sentence before the house was prorogued after a 19-day budget session.

What reason can he give?-The reason that we have more and more funds to spend? That we have covered up our budget deficits and are in the position to spend the extra funds? No reasons at all but the successive governments are bent upon to eliminate poverty, the task which we can’t achieve without eliminating the poor itself. The people concerned about the IDPs of swat should be prepared for seeing the whole nation being turned into IDPs, except the Well Placed persons (WPPs), of which these MNA are part.

 

No Water; No Bone Of Contention

The Mission Statement of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources, Government of Pakistan reads;

Make Pakistan sufficient in water resources for supplying good quality drinking water for human, livestock, wildlife, and for irrigation of agriculture crops as well as for industrial use.

Our mission statements will remain mission statement.  We haven’t seen anything being practically done from 1947 till this day. The same is the case of Water. Water has been a bone contention between the provinces for almost past sixty years. The news of water shortage in some provinces and 32,000 cusecs extra water to cover the shortages gave birth to a war of words between the provinces and even the parties believing in federalism couldn’t remain neutral and  loaded their cannon towards each others. The Pakistan People’s Party led the Sindh while the MP from PML Q & N started representing Punjab.    

 

I don’t think that the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) decision to give complete share of water to provinces is a remedy to this problem. The bone of contention will remain a bone until and unless we resolve the real issue.

 

The cartoonist of daily Ummat has beautifully pointed towards this real problem which to our “Federal” parties is not a problem at all. India is very speedily constructing new dams and the day is not for when we will have no reason to fight; no water, no water politics and no quarrel. Our “patriotic” parties who believe in federalism should pay heed to the real problem if these really want to throw out the bones of contention from between the federating units.

 

Zar-Dari State of Jiyalistan

  THE JIYALAS have always demonstrated an outlook. The Pakistan’s history guides us that the day, they enter into President House and Prime Minister House, they think the whole Pakistan is theirs; a Jiyala Pakistan or Jiyalistan. The jobs, benefits, contracts, police and police stations, bureaucracy and the government offices and above all the judiciary all are their property.

 Thanks to civil society, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf (PTI) and above all our Media, especially Jang Group of Newspapers-they all have helped us get an independent judiciary. Their efforts for the restoration judiciary, being sacked by the then dictator Gen. Musharraf, have started yielding results. One such positive outcome is the failure of Jiyala Judges’ project which could have been successful, had we not been able to restore our chief Justice and judges.

 

 The story by Usman Manzoor in The News narrates why the PPP’s government was reluctant to restore the judiciary. The NRO wasn’t the only problem-thus the issue were more complicated. The investigative reporting by The News under the leadership of veteran and brave journalist Ansar Abbasi has let us know much of the hidden agendas of our so-called leaders.

 The news story reads;

 The popular saying ‘old habits die hard’ truly fits in the case of the Punjab governor, who recently moved a list of seven ‘Jiyala lawyers’ to the chief justice of the Lahore High Court as ‘recommendations received in the Governor’s Secretariat’ for the slots of judges of the LHC…….The chief justice not only rejected the governor’s nominees but also expressed his displeasure over the violation of the Constitution because the summary for appointment of lawyers for the slots of judges had to be initiated from the office of the LHC chief justice.

The conditions of to be appointed judges are honesty, uprightness and professionalism. But the report informs us that “High courts of the country were stuffed with ‘Jiyala’ judges earlier this year when Abdul Hameed Dogar was the chief Justice. One of them even chanted the ‘Jiye Bhutto’ slogan soon after taking oath as judge of the LHC.

 I invite my blogger friends and visitor of my blog to please see the credentials and decide whether such persons should be appointed as judges to the high courts or any court established for the rule of law and justice?

 The list of seven lawyers sent by the Punjab governor included advocates Mian Sarfraz Hassan, Muhammad Abid Saqi, Jehanzeb Khan Bharwana, Syed Mutahir Ali Naqvi, Mumtaz Mustafa, Khwaja Tariq Sohail and Azhar Siddique.

 

 

• Mian Sarfraz Hassan has remained president of the People’s Lawyers’ Forum (PLF), a body of lawyers affiliated with the PPP and is a famous activist of the PPP in Lahore.   
• Abid Hussain Saqi has remained the president of PLF in Lahore and is currently serving as deputy attorney-general in Lahore. He also remained general secretary of the LHCBA. Abid Saqi, apart from his affiliation with the PPP, was embroiled in a controversy when he provided shelter to the daughter of Maulana Waheed in his house. The girl had reportedly married a non-Muslim.   
• Jahanzeb Khan Bharwana is famous in Lahore for his affiliation with the PPP  
• Syed Mazahir Ali Naqvi is a PPP Jiyala from Gujranwala. Lawyers in Lahore say Mazahir Ali Naqvi is a competent lawyer of Gujranwala. However, the reason he was nominated as judge of the LHC was his affiliation with the PPP.    
• Mumtaz Mustafa is from Rahim Yar Khan and is a member of the Punjab Bar Council. He also remained president Rahim Yar Khan Bar Association. He had been with Tehrik-e-Istaqlal and the PML (Functional) and is currently affiliated with the Khosa Group of the PPP.  
• Khwaja Tariq Sohail, a diehard PPP worker, remained member of the executive committee of the Supreme Court Bar Association. To prove his loyalty to the Khosa-Naek Group, he attended Justice Dogar’s function.  
• Azher Siddique, also a PPP supporter, has remained media adviser to Munir A Malik and Aitzaz Ahsan but deserted the lawyers’ movement.

Besides Jiyalizing the sacred institution of Judiciary the PPP’s “Politicization of the civil bureaucracy is at all-time high now, as the external influence in the bureaucratic affairs has reached an extent where the institution of civil services is about to crumble” reports Ansar Abbasi in another good story in today’s The News.

 The bureaucracy is faced with such a sorry state of affairs that the MPs and politicians are openly recommending the postings and transfers of their favorites. The dilemma is that the Prime Minister’s Secretariat is found generous in forwarding such recommendations, which are illegal under the rules, to the Establishment Division and other concerned agencies for implementation. “Politicization of bureaucracy was never like this before,” a senior PM Secretariat official said, adding it is the consequence of mounting external influence into service matters that highly embarrassing appointments are being made, which result into inter-service rivalries.

Isn’t it ridiculous to curse the bureaucracy for corruption when our politicians from the western blue-eyed party, PPP have made every effort to change our bureaucracy into a political party? In fact PPP is bent upon to change the whole country into Jiyalistan or Zar-Dari state of Jiyalistan.

 

Tell Me why we Can’t just be Friends?

with specialy thanks to Hesham Syed who shared this link with me. It seems that Delcon Galbraith is asking US led forces that why we can’t  just be friends?  The Warlord States are not gona pay heed to this little guy but at least we should listen what  he is saying.

 

Why to Blame MQM for Target Killing?

 Kashifiat carefully dealt with the Issue of Target Killing in Karachi without blaming or naming any political party, however, the supporters of MQM proved that it’s MQM which lack political tolerance and is thus responsible for the target Killings in Karachi. 

Kashif had written a balanced post and obviously the aim was to ridicule the illness and not the patient.

“The question raised by common people on the street is that why is this all happening? My answer is very simple “Lack of political tolerance”.

But if the patient says Ridicule Me?

Now two news stories in the mainstream media, Dawn and The News which  compelled me to change the tagline of my Blog “The news you won’t find in Pakistani Media” to “The news you would rarely find in PAKISTANI Media”

According to Dawn (Monday, 08 Jun, 2009);

“Nadeem Brohi, a former zonal in-charge of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Jacobabad, has been arrested after law-enforcement agencies allegedly found in his possession a huge quantity of arms and ammunition brought from Balochistan for Karachi.” He was arrested after police reported recovering Kalashnikov rifles, rocket launchers, hand grenades and a large quantity of bullets, packed in cartons, from his car. He had come from Balochistan and was proceeding to Karachi.”

Doesn’t this prove that who is responsible for Karachi Target Killing? Even if NO, for what purpose was he carrying Kalashnikov rifles, rocket launchers, and hand grenades? For the security of 9Zero which in fact is symbol of ZeroTolerance? Especially Zero tolerance for those who have committed treason by leaving Altaf Hussain and joining dissident Afaq Ahmed.

Please before commenting on this story read the must read story “Victim of renewed violence” By Adnan Adil in the “News on Sunday” which has exposed the so-called mass party MQM. It won’t be  fair if we didn’t thank our mainstream media for this courage though very rare.

“MQM-Haqiqi followers have come out of their hideouts after seven long years — with the hope that their dissident leader Amir Khan is about to be freed from jail. Political observers had been waiting for a bloodbath, as it is a set pattern in Karachi for the last one decade that political activism by any group other than MQM-Altaf is followed by bloody violence.

In the first 10 days of this month (June 1-11) 52 people have been gunned down in the city, including political workers and common people. Among the dead, 24 workers belong to Haqiqi faction of the MQM, 8 belong to the MQM-Altaf, four to the PPP, one to the PML-N and two to the Jamaat-i-Islami.

It is alleged that the recent city killings are a prelude to a power struggle in Karachi following the imminent release of jailed Haqiqi leaders Afaq Ahmed and Amir Khan. MQM-Haqiqi squarely puts blame on MQM-Altaf for the recent killing spree. The Jamaat-i-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-i- Pakistan (JUP) and the Awami National Party (ANP) share the same view. Reportedly, Haqiqi’s General Secretary Shamshad Ghuri said the other day that “Every year, as the month of June starts, which is when the MQM-Haqiqi celebrates its founding month, rival gangs start targeting and killing their workers to instil fear among them.” Haqiqi alleges that in the last seven years, 400 of its workers have been killed by the rival faction in a bid to wipe out opposition from the city.

MQM-Altaf leader Haider Abbas Rizvi says it is a conspiracy against the party to involve it in these killings. The party leaders say that the Haqiqis are involved in eliminating the activists belonging to the two Haqiqi factions and that it is wrongly being involved in the massacre. Haqiqi stands divided around these two main leaders. The city’s Liaqatabad area (aka Laloo Khait) is considered the bastion of Amir Khan and Landhi area is the supposed to be a stronghold of Afaq Ahmed.

A number of those MQM activists who have been shot dead in recent days are those who had defected back to it after leaving the Haqiqi group. Haqiqi leaders say that due to mass persecution of their activists, they had allowed their workers to join the MQM-Altaf to save their lives and now they were returning to their own faction. Thus, with the stepped-up activities of MQM-Haqiqi groups, the loyalty of the defected workers became suspect in the eyes of those who matter in the city.

A number of these activists have again gone into hiding. Haqiqi (Afaq group)’s leader Akhtar Hussain is reported to have said that 15 of their workers are missing and the party fears they would be killed. Such is the fear of targeted killing that a number of police wardens recruited in recent years on political recommendations disappeared from their duty places because they could be target of retaliation by the opposing groups.

The towns of Landhi, Korangi, Malir, Shah Faisal, North Karachi and Jamshed Town are the areas where most killings have taken place. Since Haqiqi came into action, a tension prevails in these areas and the men armed with sophisticated weapons patrol the streets. Haqiqi factions allege that the police are also victimising them by raiding on their activists’ homes and dismantling their offices. Feroze Haider, the spokesman of Haqiqi (Amir group), is reported to have said, “The police have arrested the relatives of our workers and despite our efforts Sindh Home Minister Zulfikar Mirza did not give them an audience.” However, the Home Minister has repeatedly said the government is carrying out operation against the criminals without any discrimination and has so far arrested 40 suspects.

In last two years, Imran Khan has also emerged as a factor in Karachi’s politics. The walls of the city carry slogans with abusive language against him since he lodged a criminal complaint against MQM’s Chief Altaf Hussain in London. It is believed that to gather evidence against Altaf Hussain, Imran Khan sought help from Altaf’s detractor Afaq Ahmed’s group which they provided to him. Of late, Imran Khan has been making efforts to bridge differences between Afaq Ahmed and Amir Khan. The teaming up of Imran Khan with Altaf Hussain’s detractors in Karachi is also said to be obvious cause of concern for the party. Imran Khan also alleges that Karachi police has been packed with the people affiliated with one party in power alluding to the MQM (Altaf group).

It could be a mere coincidence that whenever a political group other than MQM-Altaf starts some activity in the city of Karachi, the city is drowned in mass killings. A religio-political group Sunni Tehreek gained strength and demonstrated its power by organising big public rallies. On April 11, 2006 at a rally in Nishtar Park, Karachi, the entire leadership of the party was eliminated in a bomb explosion that left more than 50 people dead and hundreds wounded.

On May 12, 2007 the mass violence took place when the Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry tried to enter Karachi against the wishes of the party that was closely allied with the then President Pervez Musharraf. Last year, the Tehreek-i-Insaaf chief Imran Khan tried to enter the city but was refused entry by the government. When a few months back the ANP, which won two provincial seats from the city in 2008 elections, got into action, the clashes and targeted killings of its political workers took place.

It could also be just a coincidence that whenever private news channels broadcast anything that goes against a party in power, they are threatened and attacked — as the offices of Aaj TV came under attack on May 12, 2007. It is a common observation that even if a news channel dares not to live broadcast the party’s function, its transmission through cable network is taken off in the city. With political opponents prevented from political activities and media gagged to report censorship on gunpoint, the future of the city looks gloomy to say the least.

 

Pakistan Air Force kills opponent of Militants

The News of Friday, June 12, 2009 informed us that Pakistan Air Force hit a “suspected locations of Taliban Militants in the Orakzai tribal agency”. It further tells us that “Cleric among 33 was killed in these air strikes” The Pak army spokesman  says they all were terrorists. The spokesman gives us the “news” that the Madrassah was used for planning to attack the Pakistani forces. In my words, the army has achieved a milestone by dismantling that “dangerous headquarter” of Militants. 

The News reports that the Cleric Maulana Muhammad Amin was the chief of Sunni Supreme Council. The report by Rahimullah Yousafzai discloses that “Maulana Amin had reportedly close links with militants.”  However, the later part of that news story shows that the sources for this claim were “military official”.

 The news story read;

 “Military officials said Maulana Amin had close links with the Taliban militants. An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement issued here said 40 terrorists were present in the Madrassah during the attack. It said 13 of the terrorists died, which the local administration confirmed. The ISPR spokesman also denied bombing Madrassah and mosques and killing of innocent people. He said the places, which the warplanes pounded, were hideouts of the militants.”

 Interestingly the ISPR spokesman, Major Gen Athar Abbas, later, repudiated his claim and said that the Madrassah was used as hideout by the militants.

Here arise some questions which we hope that our spokesmen of both PAK Army and JUI will answer. But before that we would like to share some information with you.

The news didn’t report that the cleric was not only a great scholar but strong opponent of the elements calling them Pakistani Taliban or Tehrek Taliban Pakistan. The sources, Military officials would obviously claim that the cleric attacked was a great monster, a terrorist and threat to the national security but in fact that was not the case. According to Daily Islam, Karachi Maulna was harsh critic of element attacking the Pakistani Forces. Presently he was working for the unity of Shiite and Muslim in the area where both are hostile toward each others.

In Fact Maulna Orakzai had been the Teacher of the most of the present day teachers in Jamia Benoria and Benoria Town, Karachi. The second thing that shouldn’t be let unmentioned is that the Madrassah was run by Maulana Mufti Deen Azgar, amir of JUI district Hungo. As a matter of Fact JUI is part of central government and had kept quiet over the killing of Maulana Muhammad Amin.

Here we ask;

•  Why was he attacked if he was opponent of militants?
•  If the forces had attacked Madrassah, why did the Spokeman claim they didn’t?
•  Does the spokesman make fall statements?
•  Why is JUI silent?

 And Demand;

A high level commission comprises of ex-judges of Supreme Court and headed by Rana Bagwandas should be constituted to investigate this issue.

 

Jews Should Kill Arab Men, Women and Children

What the world is made to Believe

Warlord Daniel Pipes

A search application in the website of almost every US Think Tank will show you thousands of words like Islamic Extremism, Radical Islam, Political Islam a threat, and Muslim Terrorist etc. Some of the websites are translating “news” published in Urdu and Pashto media into English in order to expose the Muslim extremists and “Jihadis terrorist mindset”. Consequently the Muslim and terrorism has become Synonyms of each other although these are not.

 

The Story and reality

A Chabad rabbi has urged the “Jews should kill Arab men, women and children during war” According to Nathaniel Popper (Haaretz), “Like the best Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Manis Friedman has won the hearts of many unaffiliated Jews with his charismatic talks about love and God; it was Friedman who helped lead Bob Dylan into a relationship with Chabad.”

 

Mannis

Now what he says?

 1)     “The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle),” Friedman wrote in response to the question posed by Moment Magazine for its “Ask the Rabbis”  

2)     Friedman argued that if Israel followed this wisdom, there would be “no civilian casualties, no children in the line of fire, no false sense of righteousness, in fact, no war.”  

3)     “I don’t believe in Western morality,” he wrote. “Living by Torah values will make us a light unto the nations who suffer defeat because of a disastrous morality of human invention.”

Chad Warlords

Chabad-Lubavitch is a Hasidic movement in Orthodox Judaism. One of the world’s largest Hasidic movements, it is based in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The name “Chabad” (Hebrew: חב”ד) is an acronym for Chochmah, Binah, Da’at ( “Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge,” and “Lubavitch” is the only extant branch of a family of Hasidic groups once known collectively as the Chabad movement; the names are now used interchangeably.

portrait of shneur zalman of liadi (1745–1812) founder of chabad and author of tanya and shulchan aruch harav

 

 

 

 

 

Is Rabbi Manis Friedman A Common Man? & and should the words of this warlord be let to go unnoticed?

Absolutely Not. Rabbi Manis Friedman is a biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker and is the dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies. He received his rabbinic ordination at the Rabbinical College of Canada in 1969.

He is not just rabbi but hosts TV series, Torah Forum with Manis Friedman, syndicated within North America. Friedman’s first book, Doesn’t Anyone Blush Anymore?, was published in 1990. It is currently in its fourth printing. Since the 1970’s more than 150,000 of Friedman’s recorded classes and lectures have been sold. What do you think now is he a common man? Should we not be afraid if we urge to kill us?

Rabbi Friedman is a best-selling author so when he sells his war plan against Muslims which is bought by many and in fact those lobbying for Israel in Washington, shouldn’t we should our concerns?  

Muslims in the Line of Fire

According to information clearing house 12 Israeli Arabs have been indicted over Jewish Gunman’s Death

 Under the heading ‘The Victim is the Guilty Party’   Jonathan Cook in Nazareth writes;

 “The decision to prosecute 12 Israeli Arabs over what the local media have described as the “lynching” of an Israeli soldier on a bus shortly after he shot dead the driver and three passengers has been greeted with outrage from the country’s Arab minority.

 Jafar Farah, the head of Mossawa, an Arab political lobbying group, said the indictments, which follow a series of about-turns by state prosecutors, reflected “the current harsher political climate” for the Arab minority, one-fifth of the country’s population.

 A right-wing government, established this year, includes the party of Avigdor Lieberman, which is openly hostile to Arabs.

 

Who Is Threat To The World Peace?

You believe or not The Rabbis and The Jewish State of Israel is a great threat to the World Peace.

 

India, the Most Pro-Israel Country

Study on behalf of Foreign Ministry ranks India, US as most pro-Israel countries

The greatest level of sympathy towards Israel can be found in India, according to international study on behalf of the Foreign Ministry, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday.

According to the study, which was unprecedented in scope and was undertaken by an international market research company, 58% of Indian respondents showed sympathy to the Jewish State. The United States came in second, with 56% of American respondents sympathizing with Israel.

The study was undertaken as part of the “Branding Israel” project and aimed at looking into Israel’s international stature at what researchers characterized as the world’s 13 most important countries, including the US, Canada, Britain, France, China, and Russia. A total of 5,215 people took part in the study.

Other countries that showed significant sympathy to Israel included Russia (52%) Mexico (52%) and China (50%). At the bottom of the list, the study ranked Britain (34%) France (27%) and Spain (23%) as the least sympathetic countries towards Israel.

58% India

56% United States

52% Russia

52% Mexico

50% China

34% Great Britain

27% France

23% Spain

Videos make a difference

As part of the study, participants were asked a series of questions and were instructed to grade their level of sympathy of Israel on a 1-10 scale. Later, participants were presented with several branding videos on Israel, before being asked more questions in order to see whether their opinions changed after watching the clips.

The videos showed many aspects of life in Israel, including the beaches, landscape, culture, food, technology, and religious sites.

After watching the videos, a total of 51% of all respondents said their views on Israel changed for the better. The percentage of respondents who perceived Israel as an aggressive state subsequently dropped from 35% to 21%. Meanwhile, the percentage of respondents who perceived Israel as a creative country rose from 24% to 40% after watching the clips.

Both are sovereign states together by Muslim enmity, the characteristic which they share.

 

Chief Justice Meeting The US Viceroy To Af-PAK

It doesn’t come as a surprise when the US viceroy to this colony slams Hafiz Saeed. It is no wonder if we watch our president standing obediently behind during the joint press conference by our Foreign(’s) Minister and his highness viceroy for the “Pakistan Colony” These scenes do heart us but not that much because these are expected.

US viceroy to Pakistan

The thing that we didn’t expect was the meeting between Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chudhry and Richard Holbrooke in the supreme court building on June 6, 2009 and that too just two days after Hafiz’s release. (Pls Note that Holbrooke is unofficially representing India also)
Why didn’t we expect that? The answer is simple. We believed that his NO to president Musharraf was his ‘own’ and he was restored through a long struggle by the civil society and some political parties like PTI and JI and PML N in the last stage. Not just a struggle but the one for which some precious lives were sacrificed. I still remember the day when we the members of civil society were left on road of Karachi to the terrorists and CJ along with Aitezaz was sitting safely in the Airport lounge.

What in the Meeting?

Although the meeting itself was unjustified, however, there arises a question that what was discussed in the meeting?
‘Matters relating to judicial reforms as per national judicial policy and the whole judicial structure of Pakistan were discussed,’ Dr Faqir Hussain, Registrar of the Supreme Court says. But why and in what capacity both the party meet. What an ungainly cover-up this is? The registrar shows to be a good PR manager but his word doesn’t work here.

Second Development?
The second development in this regard is that “Immediately after the meeting, the chief justice went to the presidency to attend the oath-taking ceremony of newly appointed Federal Shariat Court Chief Justice Agha Mohammad Rafique. There he had a one-to-one meeting with President Asif Zardari.”

Coincidence or planned?
Were these two meetings a coincidence or agenda of the both Meetings was same? If agenda and topics were the same then it was surely a planned one. However, the time and actions of CJ in future will answer this question.

Haroon Rashid in his ‘Pheslan’ in Daily Jang has had between the line comments about the issue. Dr Arif Alvi of Pakistan Tehrek Insaf is clearer and has two write-ups about this unwanted meeting, at least unwanted to us the member of civil society and worker of political parties. In his first Post “CJP Iftikhar meets Holbrooke?” Published on Teeth Maestro dated June 7, 2009, Dr Alvi has rightly highlighted the issue.
He writes;

“We as members of the civil society have struggled long and hard for his restoration and we continue to respect the Supreme Court, but 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 ‘internments’ from Pakistan to say the least. A large number of cases were heard by the Chief Justice himself before and are still pending in which the US government has clearly been accused and implicated. Even the issue of encroachment of Pakistan’s sovereignty, and drone attacks in violation of the same and of our basic rights, can come up for hearing at the Supreme Court.”

Again on the June 11, 2009 he has penned “Dorab Patel on Judicial Aloofness – CJP’s meeting Richard Holbrooke” in this piece he has cited the attitude of past judged like Dorab Patel and Justice Wahiduddin Ahmed (father of Justice Wajeehuddin Ahmed) in this regard and told that how would they avoided meeting with the officials of all ranks including PMs.
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Salman Mugsi in the Pakistan Spectator webblog has raised some good points. In his “Why Holbrooke Met With CJP Iftikhar Chaudhary?” he writes;

“Nation stands appalled. This is the same Holbrooke, who and his predecessors were ill at ease with even the mention of the restoration of the same chief justice and also this was the same chief justice who was hyper-active to the satisfaction of many Pakistanis about the missing people, who were sold to United States by the Pervez Musharraf. Now it would be an understatement to even say that this is painful to witness these sorts of meetings.”

Then raises some question;

“What is the office of Holbrooke with CJP Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary? In order to cover things up, it is being said that CJP met with the Holbrooke on the advice of the foreign office. Since when the CJP has started accepting the advices of the FO?

 

Honorable chief justice we have been rejecting all conspiracy theories including the Other Side of the Picture. We still believe that this meeting is a share blunder to you also and will bring no changes in our expectations. Some of your colleagues, who also got restored as a result of judiciary restoration movement by the civil society, are reportedly unhappy with this meeting of yours with US viceroy. We expect that if our rulers are slave our judiciary is not. Our dream and expectations has to come true and see that we are waiting for the cases of Missing person and NRO, the later the biggest dacoit in the history of Pakistan.