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Showing posts with label Constitution of Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constitution of Pakistan. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Rhetoric of constitution and the dubious role of the Lahore High Court

Guest blog by: Aminah Bhutto
Posted by: Jarri Mirza

President Asif Ali Zardari's address today (25 November 2009) to the party workers brought a new debate on electronic media. This new debate is part of the smear campaign against Asif Ali Zardari which was started since PPP came into power last year.

Media's new rhetoric is that the President of Pakistan can't address a public procession . As a party worker I want to ask them why this sacred constitution is forgotten when judges and military generals make political statements . Here is an example of the misconduct by Chief Justice of Lahore High Court (an ex-servant of Nawaz Sharif, not very much different from another servant Rafiq Tarar). Chief (Cheap) Justice Lahore High Court in an address in July 2009 pointed towards Asif Ali Zardari as a murderer of his late wife and our beloved leader Benazir Bhutto Shaheed. He suggested that government of the day is not interested in finding her murderers!. CJ Sharif's statement is not only unconstitutional but also unethical but nobody cared. Not at least the so called guardians of law and justice in our electronic media.

Govt. knows Bhutto’s assassins: Lahore High Court CJ

Lahore, 18 July 2009 : While the UN commission is in the country to probe former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, the Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif’s shocking claims that the government is aware about all the facts regarding the murder, has raised questions over the PPP-led government’s intentions.

Addressing the members of the Islamabad District Bar Association, Sharif said the government is aware about the facts behind the killing, and that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) should quiz the government rather than making an appeal before the Chief Justice.

“Everyone knows who is responsible for the Karsaz tragedy and the killers of Benazir. The Chief Justice cannot do everything,” The Daily Times quoted Sharif, as saying.

The three-member UN Inquiry Commission arrived in Islamabad earlier this week and met President Asif Ali Zardari to begin a sixth-month investigation into Bhutto’s killing.

The UN probe team includes Chilean Ambassador to UN, Heraldo Munoz, former attorney general of Indonesia, Marzuki Darusman, and a veteran of the Irish National Police, Peter Fitzgerald. (ANI) Source

Tailpiece

LHC rejects by- polls petitions
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected the intra court petitions requesting to organize by-polls in Punjab.

A Division Bench of LHC rejected the petition filed by President Awami Muslim League Shiekh Rasheed Ahmed and other candidates running in the by-polls on the seats of National and Punjab assemblies lying vacant in the province, endorsing the earlier-given verdict given by a single member bench of the same court, of delaying bye-election in the province.

The bench also directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to consult Punjab government on rescheduling the bye-polls in the province in the light of single bench’s verdict.

Meanwhile, Shiekh Rasheed has announced to challenge the verdict of Lahore High Court and rejection of his petition against it in Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Talking to newsmen here after the hearing, AML chief claimed that the by-polls would be held in 2010. Source

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Sunday, 15 November 2009

An appeal to the Chief Justice of Pakistan



By Sarah Khan

An appeal to the Chief Justice of Pakistan

Apply Article 6 of the Constitution on Dr Shahid Masood, Shaheen Sehbai, Ansar Abbasi, their other accomplices, and owners of Geo TV/ Jang Group.

According to the constitution of Pakistan (Article 6):

6. (1) Any person who abrogates or attempts or conspires to abrogate, subverts or attempts or conspires to subverts the constitution by use of force or show of force or by other unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason.

(2) Any person aiding or abetting the acts mentioned in clause (1) shall likewise be guilty of high treason.

(3) Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) shall by law provide for the punishment of persons found guilty of high treason.

Honourable Chief Justice:

It is common knowledge that certain agents of anti-democracy establishment in Pakistan, namely Dr Shahid Masood, Shaheen Sehbai, Ansar Abbasi and their other accomplices (Saaleh Zafir, Muhammad Ahmed Noorani etc), as well as owners of Geo TV / Jang Group, are openly conspiring to derail democracy in Pakistan. On more than one occasions in their columns or TV appearances, these persons have openly invited or encouraged the Pakistan Army to take ultra-constitutional measures to either dissolve the parliament or to remove President Asif Ali Zardari from his position as the duly elected constitutional president of Pakistan.

While we understand that the professional leadership of Pakistan Army is committed to its oath and duties as per the constitution of Pakistan, the conspiracies, acts and speeches of these three persons (Shahid Masood, Ansar Abbasi and Shaheen Sehbai) and also of their other accomplices in Geo TV/ Jang Group (and certain other parts of the Pakistani media and politics), tantamount to abetting and aiding in conspiring to abrogate, subvert or attempt or conspire to subvert the constitution by use of force or show of force or by other unconstitutional means.

These three persons and their accomplices, therefore, my lord, are guilty of high treason according to the Article 6 of the constitution of Pakistan.

You are requested to initiate a suo moto acation against the culprits, and award them with an exemplary punishment consistent with the spirit of the constitution of Pakistan.

Yours sincerely
Sarah Khan
A citizen of Lahore, Pakistan

Evidence for specimen only:

چیف جسٹس آف پاکستان کے نام ایک درد مندانہ اپیل
مٹ جائے گی مخلوق تو انصاف کرو گے ؟

ڈاکٹر شاہد مسعود انصار عباسیاور شاہین صہبای، ان کے مالکان (جیو اور جنگ گروپ ) جیسے لوگ جو کھلے عام جمہوریت کے خلاف باتین کرتے ہیں جو کھلے عام فوج کو آئین پاکستان توڑنے کی دعوت دیتے ہیں.. جوجنرل کیانی کو خط لکھتے ہیں یا اپنے پروگرام میں فوج کو مداخلت کی ترغیب دیتے ہیں، ایسے لوگوں کے لیے آئین میں سزا آرٹیکل نمبر ٦ کے تحت درج ہے.
ہم پاکستانی عوام چیف جسٹس آف پاکستان جناب افتخار محمّد چودھری سے اپیل کرتے ہیں کہ سو موٹو نوٹس لیتے ہوے عدالت ان دونوں غدداروں اور ان کے شریک جرم لوگوں کو گرفتار کر کے آئین کے تحت ان کو موت کی سزا سنائے.
آئین پاکستان کا جو غدّار ہے وہ قانونی طور پر پھانسی کا حقدار ہے



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