03-13-2007, 04:12 AM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hamid Khan- President, Lahore SCBA: "The step has been taken because the government was feeling insecure due to the CJ's verdict in the Steel Mills case and very recently due to the pressure that the intelligence agencies were under due to the CJ's demands to produce the missing persons. There have been many more corrupt justices during the tenure of this government who were never disturbed because they never put Musharraf or this government or the intelligence agencies in trouble. We are very concerned and watching this whole affair very closely as very very corrupt judges were allowed to carry on by this government and this CJ has been suspended in this manner".
Justice Wajih-Ud-Din (Ex CJ-Sindh High Court): "According to the constitution the President cannot suspend the CJ, nor can he appoint anyone else in his place. He can only file a reference against the CJ in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The CJ is answerable to the SJC but he still remains the CJ, just as a president remains a president even during his impeachment hearings.
What Musharraf has done is constitutionally wrong. Iftikhar Choudhry was called to the Army House (another step that should not have been taken by Musharraf) and was made to sit there for 4-5 hours. He was only let go once Javed Iqbal had finished taking the oath. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Justice Bhagwan Das had already been sent to India on some pretext, and after taking oath Justic Javed Iqbal said that he will see whether Justice Rana Bhagwan Das should be on the SJC or not."</span>
It is also pertinent to remember that a few years back Musharraf sent another CJ (Saeed Uz Zaman Siddiqi) and a few other justices of the Supreme Court home because he was afraid they might give a ruling against him.
The CJ remains CJ till the SJC recommends to the President that the CJ be removed because corruption/misconduct has been proven. Only then can the President remove the CJ, and not by calling him in the Army House, making him sit for hours and then telling me that he has been suspended.
Musharraf and his supporters keep on reminding us that Musharraf needs to be re-elected through the current assemblies because somehow the constitution says so and how can they go against the constitution?? So how come Musharraf has conveniently forgotten the constitution in this case??<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hamid Khan- President, Lahore SCBA: "The step has been taken because the government was feeling insecure due to the CJ's verdict in the Steel Mills case and very recently due to the pressure that the intelligence agencies were under due to the CJ's demands to produce the missing persons. There have been many more corrupt justices during the tenure of this government who were never disturbed because they never put Musharraf or this government or the intelligence agencies in trouble. We are very concerned and watching this whole affair very closely as very very corrupt judges were allowed to carry on by this government and this CJ has been suspended in this manner".
Justice Wajih-Ud-Din (Ex CJ-Sindh High Court): "According to the constitution the President cannot suspend the CJ, nor can he appoint anyone else in his place. He can only file a reference against the CJ in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The CJ is answerable to the SJC but he still remains the CJ, just as a president remains a president even during his impeachment hearings.
What Musharraf has done is constitutionally wrong. Iftikhar Choudhry was called to the Army House (another step that should not have been taken by Musharraf) and was made to sit there for 4-5 hours. He was only let go once Javed Iqbal had finished taking the oath. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Justice Bhagwan Das had already been sent to India on some pretext, and after taking oath Justic Javed Iqbal said that he will see whether Justice Rana Bhagwan Das should be on the SJC or not."</span>
It is also pertinent to remember that a few years back Musharraf sent another CJ (Saeed Uz Zaman Siddiqi) and a few other justices of the Supreme Court home because he was afraid they might give a ruling against him.
The CJ remains CJ till the SJC recommends to the President that the CJ be removed because corruption/misconduct has been proven. Only then can the President remove the CJ, and not by calling him in the Army House, making him sit for hours and then telling me that he has been suspended.
Musharraf and his supporters keep on reminding us that Musharraf needs to be re-elected through the current assemblies because somehow the constitution says so and how can they go against the constitution?? So how come Musharraf has conveniently forgotten the constitution in this case??<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->