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Felicitations to Mr Zadari
K B Laghari
I congratulate Mr Asif Ali Zardari on being acquitted from all
criminal cases of past years. Certainly he owes his debt and
gratitude to Mushrraf’s NRO and he paid it well. He accepted his
illegal rule,confused and diffused judicial movement (though
unsuccessfully), conceitedly distanced himself from ML-N against
national pledge to restore ‘Judges’ in 30 days to pay back Musharraf.
Another confused man is Aitzaz Hasan.He files nomination papers for
election and next day withdraws it to avoid embarrassing PPP-Z.
Yet the most overjoyed MQM walas who seem to be so true of them.
Nonetheless the nation starves with unpredendented ‘ mehangi’, no
water,no electricity but all for richest looters.For poor the empty
slogans of ‘roti,kapra,makan, are now the most hated sounds and talk
of ‘humari sab se ziada qurbanien’. Lies and deciet is all about for
poor!.
—Quetta
Legal question
Mir Tabassum Miraj
Statements made by the top leaders, regarding reinstatement of
judges by legal means to undo an unconstitutional and illegal action
reminds me a joke which I would like to share with the readers. A
thief was being chased by a policeman and as he was close to catch
him, the thief entered a building, where a board was hanging with a
message,” No entry without permission”. The policeman stopped
because he did not want to do an act which was not permissible.
—Islamabad
‘Avoiding politics of conflict’
Noorudin
I would rather prefer one thousand enemies than one sycophant and
friendly columnist. Mohammad Jamils’ article “avoiding politics
which appeared in Pakistan Observer on conflict” of 20-5-08 is the
reference in case.Infact,his article negated what he preached. He
seems to live only in past. His article, matter of factly only
created conflict by living in past, remembering one politicians’
[if] 15 years old weaknesses and wrongs. His attitude looks to be
line with MQM who found their new love in the most unprincipled
stand of PPP-Z to get few ministries in Sind and now eyeing Centre
by creating wedge between PPPZ and ML-N.That is the new sycophants
politics now: to divide, break others to retain power and
consolidate Mushraff.Tomorrow,they will do the same to Zardari.
—Bahawalpur
At public expense?
Hamza Hashmi
A day after taking oath as Punjab Governor, Salman Taseer flew to
Garhi Khuda Baksh to offer fateha at Benazir Bhutto’s grave.
According to media reports, Mr Taseer used a special plane of the
government of Punjab on the trip. Notwithstanding Ms Bhutto’s
stature as a leader and the respect her followers have for her, why
should the new governor use taxpayers’ money to perform a ritual
which is purely personal and has nothing to do with his job as
Punjab governor? Moreover, why did Mr Taseer wait for five months
after the death of Ms Bhutto to visit Garhi Khuda Baksh?
—Islamabad
PM’s personal staff
Brig Sher Khan [R]
It has been reported in the Press that the prime minister has no
less than nine serving military officers on his personal staff. One
wonders why he does not send them back to the services when he has
announced so clearly that all military personnel in civil posts will
be reverted to the military within a short period. The same
principle could be applied to others, such as governors, president
of Azad Kashmir and so on. Leading by example, not by precept, the
prime minister must now send his military staff packing, not that
they will be too happy about their marching orders.
The army has reportedly pulled out a lot of serving officers and men
from civilian departments and could consider pulling out more, such
as from numerous cadet colleges which no longer serve as feeders to
the military. But what is surprising is that the navy and the PAF
have not followed suit, especially in departments like the CAA.
Military officers serving in civilian appointments which do not
require their specific military skills curtail the promotion
prospects of civilians in these departments, which lead to
resentment against the military.
The practice of a military staff for the prime minister of the day
started when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became prime minister after holding
office of president. He took his entire military staff with him.
When General Zia ‘reintroduced’ democracy, Mr Junejo insisted on a
full military complement to hang onto his coattails, and the
practice has continued ever since. By comparison, Mr Jinnah only had
a lieutenant-colonel as his military secretary and three ADCs
(captains or equivalent) while the then prime minister had none. So,
let soldiers, sailors and airmen go back to barracks, as politicians
never seem to tire of drumbeating, and do what they are trained to
do.
—Rawalpindi
Poor governance
M K Bangash
Every PPP leader beats about the bush upon being asked as to why
their party is reluctant to restore the deposed judges. Every leader
comes up a novel excuse, such as first the PPP has to solve the atta
and power problems etc. The question is that who is stopping it from
solving other problems? That is a responsibility of the ministers
concerned and the judiciary’s restoration is definitely not going to
aggravate the wheat crisis. On the other hand, more than one and a
half month has passed after the government’s formation, still the
nation doesn’t see any success in overcoming the wheat crisis
despite the fact it can easily be ended by importing wheat.
—Peshawar
