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By Kamran Shafi
LAST week I had written about Laat Sahib Bahadur Punjab, HE Salman Taseer’s diabolical plan to take young Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on a political (long) march through the Punjab when the lad comes home for his August break at Oxford.
I have had fifteen emails, the most I have received for any of my pieces for this newspaper, every single one of them agreeing with my fervent plea to the governor to let the boy be; to let him concentrate on his studies (he is only in his first year at Oxford, for God’s sake); and be as care-free a student as his peers and mates.
To Lahore now. One had read about the Doongi Ground scandal in the papers when Their Lordships Khalilur Rehman Ramday and Raja Fayyaz Mahmood of the Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan (destroyed by the dictator on Nov 3, 2007) issued a status quo order on April 14, 2006, halting further construction of the proposed IMAX theatre.
I visited Lahore recently and was shocked to see the extent of the ugliness that stared me in the face in place of the ground upon which local children and their friends from elsewhere played cricket. My mind went racing back thirty years when my younger boy Kassem, used to visit his great and good friend Mufti who lived very near the Doongi Ground. Whenever I went to bring my son back from visiting Mufti I used to find that the boys had gone to the ground to play cricket with other neighbourhood children.
Well, all it took was a visit to an IMAX theatre in London (or Berlin — the Punjab government is not sure!) by Pervaiz Elahi, in the company of the then secretary of information and culture and the director general (PR) and bingo! Lahore had to have an IMAX theatre too!
Never mind that there are not many films in the IMAX mode or format in the whole wide world; never mind that the tickets for the IMAX would be beyond the reach of the common citizen — the rich as we well know, have home theatres in their basements costing in some cases crores of rupees, I kid you not.
So what was the cunning plan Elahi’s Punjab government came up with? To add a shopping plaza to the theatre complex, which would pay the running expenses of the theatre. I ask you! Talk of the tail wagging the dog! What a dog! What a tail!
To add insult to injury, the Punjab government changed the ‘use’ of the land through several subterfuges, even paying hundreds of millions in consultancy fees/“compensation” to all manner of people, including the Commando’s favourite theatre producer/director Shah Sharabeel who was reportedly paid Rs4.5m to let go his rights over the Doongi Ground, handed over to him by, you guessed it: the Punjab Horticultural Authority, once headed by Kamran Lashari.
Now where did we hear Shah Sharabeel’s name before, in connection with other lucrative government leases? Remember the other ‘Doongi’ Ground, this time in Islamabad’s F-7 Markaz, that was handed over to this person by the CDA to develop a mini-golf thingy on it; a junk food outlet et al? And who was the chairman CDA when this little transaction happened? Er, none other than self-same Kamran Lashari.
Let us go on, leaving the Sharabeels of this world aside with a reminder that this was the man who had the temerity to actually bad-mouth, on live TV, the then sent on eave/dismissed/removed from office Chief Justice of Pakistan, My Lord Iftikhar Chaudhry with not a squeak emanating from the sitting judiciary about the unfair abuse heaped upon their brother. The reason was that on the plea of environmentalists the CJ had dared to stop Sharabeel from ‘developing’ the mini-golf thing.
Back to the Lahore IMAX, however. There is much that needs to be exposed by the Punjab government. It simply must tell the nation the extent of the fraud that went on. It must tell the people why Moonis Elahi, the elder scion of the House of Pervaiz sat in on meetings of the Punjab Entertainment Company (Guarantee) Limited (PECL) formed for the purpose? It must tell us why in the world, serving secretaries to the Government of Punjab sat on the board of PECL? And what it is doing towards making sure that public servants never again have the gall, yes that is the word, to follow apparently and evidently illegal orders? It must tell us too, why the Punjab government (I ask you!) issued cheques for the entire amount to the IMAX company in Canada without any performance guarantee, even without the machinery being shipped (to date!!).
A word about the Frontier tragedy. The situation will soon be out of our hands if we do not stop the madness right now. It is clear that the state of affairs there is well beyond the capabilities of the present set-up. How in the world can the Pakistan Army be expected to normalise a situation which it helped create in the first place?
It has been suggested before by others; let me suggest it again with all the force and persuasion at my command. Make an all-powerful committee of seven good men. Call them the ‘Czars of Peace’ in the Frontier. Let them, who know the Frontier and the tribes and their mannerisms and their mores, be responsible for every facet of the operation: from supervising the political wallahs to ordering military action, to granting monies/compensation, to prioritising development work. They should answer only to the parliament.
The situation is far different from when they were in the field, I know, made different by a quite numbing foolishness on the part of army commanders over the last eight years; made different by our very own agencies: Mangal Bagh, Baitullah Mehsud and Mullah Radio did not just fall out of the sky. Still, if anyone can make a difference, these men can.
Surely there are others too, but let me venture to suggest the following: Major General Nasirullah Babar; Mohammad (Lala) Afzal Khan of Swat; Mr Jamil Ahmad CSP, Sahibzada Imtiaz Ahmad CSP, Mr Kunwar Idris CSP, Dr Humayun Khan CSP, and Major General Khurshid Ali Khan. They are sagacious wise men; they have all served in the Frontier; they will know slightly better than nineteen Lt Gen Whatstheirnames.
PS Many in Peshawar say the instant tamasha there is as a sop to the Americans just prior to Boucher’s visit to the Land of the Pure, and Gilani’s to pay homage to Dubya. What a tail; what a dog!
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Benazir is no more: understand that
By Kamran Shafi
DID I say last week that I was on an up because the news was that the country was progressing towards the restoration of the illegally and unconstitutionally removed judiciary? This despite the fact that we Pakistanis were still strapped to the rickety roller-coaster that we have been tied to ever since the birth of our country? A roller-coaster that has given us the ride of our lives for every one of those 60 years, losing us half our country during its mad progress?
Well, one week later I am on a down because the roller-coaster is hurtling downwards so fast that it can only spell doom for all the hapless souls trapped in it. We must note that whilst the controls were in the hands of the establishment heretofore, they are today in the hands of the newly-discovered leadership of the PPP made up mainly of Ms Bhutto and Mr Zardari’s personal lawyers.
These people simply do not understand, and if they do they surprise one with their attitudes, that the astute politician Benazir Bhutto is no more. That there is not much time left for little pranks and littler too-clever-by-half moves. That if they let the Commando off the hook on which the people of Pakistan have strung him up the country would have lost and they will have won a very short-term, very Pyrrhic victory.
They simply must understand that the main aim and objective of the establishment for the last four decades has been, and remains to this blessed day, the destruction of the People’s Party. That it was only the popularity of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and of his beloved daughter that has thus far prevented its unravelling despite dictators doing their damnedest.
That by playing their foolish little games they are playing right into the hands of the Commando who retains the position of grand-daddy of the establishment (read army) because of overt American support. They simply do not realise that in the absence of the truly benazir Benazir they are sure to fall flat on their faces, taking the party down with them. That for them it will only be a short joyride enjoying government planes and plush limos and fragrant offices before they are kicked off/out of them.
They should be made to realise by those who have been with the party for far longer that the present time is a great time for the PPP with the second-largest party in the country, the PML-N, a former adversary, sincerely on its side. The parties together can get a lot done, especially with the country in the mess it is in. Just look at one aspect: the lies told by the previous government about the economy and the fact that subsidies granted just to win votes have now to be withdrawn. Is it not a boon for the PPP to have Ishaq Dar as finance minister who is not only a brilliant man but also has to take all the hard decisions?
Let’s see this another way: what happens if, say, the new brilliances of the People’s Party succeed in scuttling the judges’ full reinstatement according to the Murree/Bhurban accord? What happens if, as a consequence, Nawaz Sharif walks out of the coalition because he has a promise to keep? Does the PPP think it will be able to stay on in power by coming to an arrangement with the PML-Q and the MQM?
Think again, boys. Quite apart from the fact that it will be well nigh impossible to run any kind of halfway government with a large, and by then an even more popular party like the ‘N’ sitting outside the government, do the bright sparks who are taking the party to the edge think the PPP/PML-Q/MQM/Commando combine will last long? That the MQM will not demand its several kilograms of flesh in Sindh, to the chagrin of the majority, for support in Islamabad?
No sirs, no. Get off that cloud you are riding and realise that the brilliant Benazir who might have pulled the party out of the problems into which you are forcing it has departed this earth, she is no more. Don’t, for God’s sake, try and become cleverer than half. Keep the promise made in the Murree/Bhurban declaration; for, after all, you did sign it!
While all this argy-bargy goes on with new and ever newer PPP tamashas being reported every single day, the PML-N goes about doing the right thing. The Punjab government is already feeling energised: as you get off the motorway at Thokar Niazbeg you see the petrol and CNG stations being moved back from the land they had encroached upon.
Apparently, these encroachments prevented the contractor from working on the flyover that was to connect to the motorway. It took the new government just one night and one day to remove the encroachments and get the work going, but at a high cost to the exchequer. Construction delays cost more money due to escalating prices and Punjab will now have to fork out Rs800m more to complete the project just because of the corruption of the previous government. And yet the Commando has the gall to say things are bad because the present government is not giving the country good governance!
By the way, there was no earthly reason for Gilani throwing a lavish dinner for the army’s formation commanders, and then to add insult to injury, to regale his guests with a musical evening. Is this the time for fancy banquets and music when the poor are struggling to survive? Why, I bought flour for the house five days ago for Rs980 per 40 kg, up Rs340 inside of three months.
There was even less reason, or call, for Gilani to say that the army also had to defend the ‘ideological frontiers’ of the country. For God’s sake, prime minister! Fifty years have we tried to disabuse the army of its arrogating this duty to itself! And yet you go and do this! What the devil are ‘ideological frontiers’ anyway? Seeing the ugly, hateful place our country has become, hasn’t it had enough of ‘ideology’? An aside here. It appears Sharifuddin Pirzada is still a frequent visitor to the presidency. Asked quite recently why he represented military dictators, he replied that he was a lawyer (gun?) for hire, simple as that. So, who is paying the man now? Has the Commando apportioned massive funds for the presidency’s ‘secret fund’ of which there is no accountability? Or is one of Musharraf’s wealthy arms-dealer friends footing Sharifuddin’s surely considerable bills?
Bushism of the week: “The United States has suffered terrorist attacks on its soil, as have Russia” — President George W. Bush; Sochi, Russia; April 6, 2008
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DID I say last week that I was on an up because the news was that the country was progressing towards the restoration of the illegally and unconstitutionally removed judiciary? This despite the fact that we Pakistanis were still strapped to the rickety roller-coaster that we have been tied to ever since the birth of our country? A roller-coaster that has given us the ride of our lives for every one of those 60 years, losing us half our country during its mad progress?
Well, one week later I am on a down because the roller-coaster is hurtling downwards so fast that it can only spell doom for all the hapless souls trapped in it. We must note that whilst the controls were in the hands of the establishment heretofore, they are today in the hands of the newly-discovered leadership of the PPP made up mainly of Ms Bhutto and Mr Zardari’s personal lawyers.
These people simply do not understand, and if they do they surprise one with their attitudes, that the astute politician Benazir Bhutto is no more. That there is not much time left for little pranks and littler too-clever-by-half moves. That if they let the Commando off the hook on which the people of Pakistan have strung him up the country would have lost and they will have won a very short-term, very Pyrrhic victory.
They simply must understand that the main aim and objective of the establishment for the last four decades has been, and remains to this blessed day, the destruction of the People’s Party. That it was only the popularity of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and of his beloved daughter that has thus far prevented its unravelling despite dictators doing their damnedest.
That by playing their foolish little games they are playing right into the hands of the Commando who retains the position of grand-daddy of the establishment (read army) because of overt American support. They simply do not realise that in the absence of the truly benazir Benazir they are sure to fall flat on their faces, taking the party down with them. That for them it will only be a short joyride enjoying government planes and plush limos and fragrant offices before they are kicked off/out of them.
They should be made to realise by those who have been with the party for far longer that the present time is a great time for the PPP with the second-largest party in the country, the PML-N, a former adversary, sincerely on its side. The parties together can get a lot done, especially with the country in the mess it is in. Just look at one aspect: the lies told by the previous government about the economy and the fact that subsidies granted just to win votes have now to be withdrawn. Is it not a boon for the PPP to have Ishaq Dar as finance minister who is not only a brilliant man but also has to take all the hard decisions?
Let’s see this another way: what happens if, say, the new brilliances of the People’s Party succeed in scuttling the judges’ full reinstatement according to the Murree/Bhurban accord? What happens if, as a consequence, Nawaz Sharif walks out of the coalition because he has a promise to keep? Does the PPP think it will be able to stay on in power by coming to an arrangement with the PML-Q and the MQM?
Think again, boys. Quite apart from the fact that it will be well nigh impossible to run any kind of halfway government with a large, and by then an even more popular party like the ‘N’ sitting outside the government, do the bright sparks who are taking the party to the edge think the PPP/PML-Q/MQM/Commando combine will last long? That the MQM will not demand its several kilograms of flesh in Sindh, to the chagrin of the majority, for support in Islamabad?
No sirs, no. Get off that cloud you are riding and realise that the brilliant Benazir who might have pulled the party out of the problems into which you are forcing it has departed this earth, she is no more. Don’t, for God’s sake, try and become cleverer than half. Keep the promise made in the Murree/Bhurban declaration; for, after all, you did sign it!
While all this argy-bargy goes on with new and ever newer PPP tamashas being reported every single day, the PML-N goes about doing the right thing. The Punjab government is already feeling energised: as you get off the motorway at Thokar Niazbeg you see the petrol and CNG stations being moved back from the land they had encroached upon.
Apparently, these encroachments prevented the contractor from working on the flyover that was to connect to the motorway. It took the new government just one night and one day to remove the encroachments and get the work going, but at a high cost to the exchequer. Construction delays cost more money due to escalating prices and Punjab will now have to fork out Rs800m more to complete the project just because of the corruption of the previous government. And yet the Commando has the gall to say things are bad because the present government is not giving the country good governance!
By the way, there was no earthly reason for Gilani throwing a lavish dinner for the army’s formation commanders, and then to add insult to injury, to regale his guests with a musical evening. Is this the time for fancy banquets and music when the poor are struggling to survive? Why, I bought flour for the house five days ago for Rs980 per 40 kg, up Rs340 inside of three months.
There was even less reason, or call, for Gilani to say that the army also had to defend the ‘ideological frontiers’ of the country. For God’s sake, prime minister! Fifty years have we tried to disabuse the army of its arrogating this duty to itself! And yet you go and do this! What the devil are ‘ideological frontiers’ anyway? Seeing the ugly, hateful place our country has become, hasn’t it had enough of ‘ideology’? An aside here. It appears Sharifuddin Pirzada is still a frequent visitor to the presidency. Asked quite recently why he represented military dictators, he replied that he was a lawyer (gun?) for hire, simple as that. So, who is paying the man now? Has the Commando apportioned massive funds for the presidency’s ‘secret fund’ of which there is no accountability? Or is one of Musharraf’s wealthy arms-dealer friends footing Sharifuddin’s surely considerable bills?
Bushism of the week: “The United States has suffered terrorist attacks on its soil, as have Russia” — President George W. Bush; Sochi, Russia; April 6, 2008
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Farce after farce after farce …
Farce after farce after farce …
By Kamran Shafi
THIS is how the Es of the Five-E-Manifesto of the Peoples Party are placed presently: Employment, Education, Energy, Environment, Equality. Er, should the E denoting Equality not have been the first?
I mean, it was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s espousal of the rights of the poor and the dispossessed (read EQUALITY) that 30 years after his judicial murder they are still propelled towards the PPP’s ballot boxes, innit?
I am a soldier too: to put it in perspective, six courses junior to Musharraf and twenty-something senior to the new COAS. I hang my head in shame at the farce that the nation was subjected to in the name of the ‘handing over of command’ of the Pakistan Army.
Not only were the drill movements of the parading troops out of sync, they were so exaggerated and embellished with silly additions that it seemed as if it was the Martian Army drilling badly, not the one I knew and loved.
Far more than this, where in the world does army command change with such pomp and circumstance, military parades and such like? Where in the world, indeed, does the outgoing army chief ceremonially present his successor with an item that is part of his uniform (the Malacca cane is part of the uniform of General Officers of the Pakistan Army)? Did Musharraf also give Kayani a pair of black woollen socks?
This was just one COAS handing over, albeit after nine long years instead of the usual three in most civilised countries, to his successor. This was hardly an emperor handing over the orb and sceptre to his successor. (Or was it?!)
From what I know and have seen in my many years, change of army command is a simple, graceful, quiet affair: at the end of his last working day the outgoing chief inspects a guard of honour drawn up outside his office in GHQ and is seen into his car by the principal staff officers (PSOs) to drive off home.
The next day, the new chief comes to GHQ, is received by the PSOs, inspects the guard of honour, and goes into his office. End of story.
But, as my readers well know, we are a quite unique people and we do quite unique things, even if they make us look silly to the rest of the world. Which can go hang itself as far as our Commando is concerned, for according to himself during his speech at his ‘swearing-in’ as ‘civilian president’ it took the West centuries to get where they are in respect of better human rights, more civil liberties and democracy, and they want us to get there in a few months or a few years? Idiots, these Westerners.
May I here and now suggest to those of my friends who are demanding the rule of law and constitution, and freedom for the media, to prepare for the worst. While I feel in my very bones that the law will reign supreme in the near future, Musharraf or no Musharraf, I know too that the brutal state will become more brutal still.
What Musharraf said was not without reason – he wants to tell us that even if one of his celebrated skins is off, he is still very much the Commando. (Note please, that this was written on Nov 29; the papers on Dec 1 quoted Musharraf saying he would not allow anti-election protests.)
It was sad, nay pathetic, to yet again see him badmouth My Lord Iftikhar Chaudhry, this time on the day of his so-called swearing-in, an occasion that he could and should have used to send a message of reconciliation to the country at large.
But no. Pervez Musharraf, the perennial juvenile (please, please read his book I beg you, to really get an idea of the extent of the trouble we are in) kept to his combative and macho best, casting aside any gentlemanly attributes such as not hitting a man who (and his family) has/have already been pummelled mercilessly using naked and vicious State power.
The “former Chief Justice was derailing democracy as part of a well-planned conspiracy” Musharraf said in his petulant diatribe; and further that if he hadn’t acted decisively “chaos, destruction and break down” would have resulted in the rest of the country as it had in Swat. Really?
The Chief Justice was responsible for the ineptness and the lackadaisical attitude of the government atop which sat/sits Pervez Musharraf during all the time that it did not react to what was happening in Swat? He must really think we are a bunch of idiots!
Which reminds me: judging from the levity writ large on the Frontier Caretaker CM’s visage at Musharraf’s swearing-in everything seems hunky dory in the province. I mean, one could almost hear the man guffawing.
We are up the proverbial creek my friends, in a very leaky boat with you-know-what gushing in by the globule; in which state we shall remain unless our political parties get up off their hands and do something about it. Which is to see the back of Musharraf as soon as possible?
The only way to do this, let me repeat myself, is by isolating him completely by boycotting the elections. With the larger of the parties sitting outside the assemblies the whole edifice will come crashing down under its own weight before you can say “Charlie’s Aunt”!
The politicians must beware that if they don’t stick together the Establishment will neuter them one by one. And that to be seen as furthering Musharraf’s (read Army’s) agenda is pure poison: are you listening Benazir Bhutto? You are the key.
By the way, Ghazala Minallah, daughter of that brave and good judge, Ghulam Safdar Shah, has written you an open letter. I wept when I read it, for I was one of those who saw ZAB’s peerless defence of himself in the Supreme Court and well remember an occasion when Justice Safdar Shah could not control his emotions and actually brushed a tear from his eye. Personalities do matter, Ms. Bhutto! As your good father’s did.
Bushism of the Week: “I’m occasionally reading, I want you to know, in the second term.” – President George W. Bush; Washington D.C., March 16, 2005
P.S. May I once again register my dismay and outrage at Aitzaz Ahsan’s and Justice Tariq Mehmood’s and Ali Ahmed Kurd’s continued detentions? Shame on you, Dubya; shame on you, America!
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By Kamran Shafi
THIS is how the Es of the Five-E-Manifesto of the Peoples Party are placed presently: Employment, Education, Energy, Environment, Equality. Er, should the E denoting Equality not have been the first?
I mean, it was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s espousal of the rights of the poor and the dispossessed (read EQUALITY) that 30 years after his judicial murder they are still propelled towards the PPP’s ballot boxes, innit?
I am a soldier too: to put it in perspective, six courses junior to Musharraf and twenty-something senior to the new COAS. I hang my head in shame at the farce that the nation was subjected to in the name of the ‘handing over of command’ of the Pakistan Army.
Not only were the drill movements of the parading troops out of sync, they were so exaggerated and embellished with silly additions that it seemed as if it was the Martian Army drilling badly, not the one I knew and loved.
Far more than this, where in the world does army command change with such pomp and circumstance, military parades and such like? Where in the world, indeed, does the outgoing army chief ceremonially present his successor with an item that is part of his uniform (the Malacca cane is part of the uniform of General Officers of the Pakistan Army)? Did Musharraf also give Kayani a pair of black woollen socks?
This was just one COAS handing over, albeit after nine long years instead of the usual three in most civilised countries, to his successor. This was hardly an emperor handing over the orb and sceptre to his successor. (Or was it?!)
From what I know and have seen in my many years, change of army command is a simple, graceful, quiet affair: at the end of his last working day the outgoing chief inspects a guard of honour drawn up outside his office in GHQ and is seen into his car by the principal staff officers (PSOs) to drive off home.
The next day, the new chief comes to GHQ, is received by the PSOs, inspects the guard of honour, and goes into his office. End of story.
But, as my readers well know, we are a quite unique people and we do quite unique things, even if they make us look silly to the rest of the world. Which can go hang itself as far as our Commando is concerned, for according to himself during his speech at his ‘swearing-in’ as ‘civilian president’ it took the West centuries to get where they are in respect of better human rights, more civil liberties and democracy, and they want us to get there in a few months or a few years? Idiots, these Westerners.
May I here and now suggest to those of my friends who are demanding the rule of law and constitution, and freedom for the media, to prepare for the worst. While I feel in my very bones that the law will reign supreme in the near future, Musharraf or no Musharraf, I know too that the brutal state will become more brutal still.
What Musharraf said was not without reason – he wants to tell us that even if one of his celebrated skins is off, he is still very much the Commando. (Note please, that this was written on Nov 29; the papers on Dec 1 quoted Musharraf saying he would not allow anti-election protests.)
It was sad, nay pathetic, to yet again see him badmouth My Lord Iftikhar Chaudhry, this time on the day of his so-called swearing-in, an occasion that he could and should have used to send a message of reconciliation to the country at large.
But no. Pervez Musharraf, the perennial juvenile (please, please read his book I beg you, to really get an idea of the extent of the trouble we are in) kept to his combative and macho best, casting aside any gentlemanly attributes such as not hitting a man who (and his family) has/have already been pummelled mercilessly using naked and vicious State power.
The “former Chief Justice was derailing democracy as part of a well-planned conspiracy” Musharraf said in his petulant diatribe; and further that if he hadn’t acted decisively “chaos, destruction and break down” would have resulted in the rest of the country as it had in Swat. Really?
The Chief Justice was responsible for the ineptness and the lackadaisical attitude of the government atop which sat/sits Pervez Musharraf during all the time that it did not react to what was happening in Swat? He must really think we are a bunch of idiots!
Which reminds me: judging from the levity writ large on the Frontier Caretaker CM’s visage at Musharraf’s swearing-in everything seems hunky dory in the province. I mean, one could almost hear the man guffawing.
We are up the proverbial creek my friends, in a very leaky boat with you-know-what gushing in by the globule; in which state we shall remain unless our political parties get up off their hands and do something about it. Which is to see the back of Musharraf as soon as possible?
The only way to do this, let me repeat myself, is by isolating him completely by boycotting the elections. With the larger of the parties sitting outside the assemblies the whole edifice will come crashing down under its own weight before you can say “Charlie’s Aunt”!
The politicians must beware that if they don’t stick together the Establishment will neuter them one by one. And that to be seen as furthering Musharraf’s (read Army’s) agenda is pure poison: are you listening Benazir Bhutto? You are the key.
By the way, Ghazala Minallah, daughter of that brave and good judge, Ghulam Safdar Shah, has written you an open letter. I wept when I read it, for I was one of those who saw ZAB’s peerless defence of himself in the Supreme Court and well remember an occasion when Justice Safdar Shah could not control his emotions and actually brushed a tear from his eye. Personalities do matter, Ms. Bhutto! As your good father’s did.
Bushism of the Week: “I’m occasionally reading, I want you to know, in the second term.” – President George W. Bush; Washington D.C., March 16, 2005
P.S. May I once again register my dismay and outrage at Aitzaz Ahsan’s and Justice Tariq Mehmood’s and Ali Ahmed Kurd’s continued detentions? Shame on you, Dubya; shame on you, America!
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