பர்வேஸ் முஷாரப் இந்து ஆகிறாரா?

நேஷன் என்ற பாகிஸ்தான் செய்தி பத்திரிக்கையில் கீழ்க்கண்ட கருத்தோவியத்தை படித்தேன்.

சமீபகாலமாக பர்வேஸ் முஷாரப் இந்துமதத்துக்கு ஆதரவாகவும், இந்துமதத்தை புகழ்ந்துரைத்தும், இந்து பண்டிகைகளை பகிரங்கமாக தானே கொண்டாடி பிரபலப்படுத்துவதையும் பார்த்து வருந்தி இந்த கட்டுரையை உஸ்மான் காலித் எழுதியிருக்கிறார்.

Suspension of the Chief Justice

USMAN KHALID

The removal of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry by General Pervaiz Musharraf is unprecedented not only in Pakistan but in the entire British Commonwealth where judicial practice is based on the British legal system. This is an assault on the principle of separation of power and independence of the judiciary. This assault must be resisted by the judicial establishment and the legal profession not only for their own sake but also for the sake of the people of Pakistan who get redress against the excesses of the executive only through the judiciary. Mr Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry had earned the trust and gratitude of the people by his judicial activism frequently taking suo moto notice of the negligence and excesses of officials. He had passed judgements against ministers when they had acted in defiance of law or against public interest. There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that the effort to remove him from office is politically motivated. The present incumbent of the office of the President is also the COAS in defiance of every political, moral and legal principle. He is scared he could not depend on Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to endorse his being elected President once again by the present assemblies or to continue as COAS into another term of office as President. He needed to induct a new Chief Justice who would be amenable to pressure.
The Charge Sheet prepared by Naeem Bukhari against the Chief Justice clearly shows that an elaborate trap was prepared for him. The favours to his son were inducements that were turned around to make a case for misuse of authority. The most he could be accused of is sifaarish if he actually wrote a letter to a high official for his son. I believe he did no such thing. In any case, sifaarish is not an offence; it is the normal method of working in Pakistan. Insisting on rigid protocol or using aeroplanes of the provincial government is not improper. It would have been improper if he had asked an individual for a favour whose case was before the court. In the Steel Mills case, the Supreme Court judged improper conduct by the Prime Minister and the Board he presided over that decided to sell the Steel Mills in violation of procedures well below its market price. This Government took no action against them! Clearly, his ability to withstand pressure and building confidence of the people in the judiciary that the illegitimate rulers of Pakistan see as a threat. It is to preclude decisions against the Government on important constitutional points that are to be brought before the Supreme Court in the run up to the elections that the Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry is sought to be removed.
The situation is very serious. I said in an earlier column that General Musharraf has neutralised the three most important pro-Pakistan forces - Pakistan Army, Pakistan Muslim League and the religious political parties – all alone by himself. By being the sole representative and spokesman of the armed forces, he prevents any institutional input from them. By appointing carefully chosen henchmen as the President of the PML and the Prime Minister, he has become the ‘decider’ in the Muslim League. Entrenched in the two, he makes daily assaults on the religious political parties and vilifies them as ‘obscurantist’ and ‘extremists’. We now know what he means by ‘enlightened moderation’. It is eulogising Hinduism (celebrating Holi and Basant), preaching Hinduised ‘Sufi’ Islam, and decrying Jihad. He is attacking the very edifice of the polity of Pakistan - vilifying Islam and extending patronage to opponents of the Two Nation Theory – notably the MQM. Now he has attacked the one pillar of the state – the judiciary – that had escaped erosion of authority despite military rule and was gaining public confidence. That cannot be allowed to pass. The people must support and the judicial establishment should play the lead role.
I heard on TV a journalist making a very good point. He said that Prime Minister Nawaz had legal authority to dismiss General Musharraf from the office of COAS but he did not follow ‘due process’ in exercising that authority. His colleagues in the Army decided they would not allow their chief to be so dishonourably dismissed. The result was that Nawaz Sharif was dismissed but General Musharraf escaped dismissal. The Judges can, and indeed MUST, also react with solidarity to safeguard the independence of the Judiciary. Fortunately, the law is even clearer in this case. The President has no authority to remove any judge let alone the Chief Justice. That authority is vested in the Supreme Judicial Council. The President has exceeded his authority by removing the Chief Justice and appointing an Acting Chief Justice before the Supreme Judicial Council could even hear the charges. The Acting Chief Justice, Javed Iqbal, Mr Justice Dogar who administered the oath of office to him, the Chief Justice of the Lahore and Sindh High Court who attended the swearing in ceremony, should excuse themselves from sitting on the Supreme Judicial Council to hear the reference. I hope Mr Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry would also raise an objection to their sitting on the Council on grounds of conflict of interest. If these judges did not exclude themselves, they would be seen as party to the conspiracy to remove from office their Chief Justice. One hopes that the Supreme Judicial Council, whoever its members, will say that Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has no case to answer.
The military dictators, every time they usurped power, asked members of high judiciary to take a new oath swearing loyalty to them. After taking such an oath, the judges were bound to uphold the usurpation of power by invoking the dubious ‘doctrine of necessity’. One could understand their fear because the entire judiciary had been put under threat of losing jobs. This time, no judge is under threat of losing his job. This time the judges have the power and legal authority to make sure it is General Musharraf who loses his job. Will they come up to the expectations of the people or will they fail the nation once again?
The writer is the Director of the London Institute of South Asia --

இந்துமதத்துக்கும் இந்தியாவுக்கும் ஆதரவாக முஷாரப் மாறிவருகிறார் என்பதனை ஜீரணிக்க முடியாமல் இங்கே ஒரு ரிட்டயர்ட் பாகிஸ்தானிய மேஜர் புலம்புகிறார்

A few enlightened steps

I am disgusted by our leaders' behind the scenes talk of accepting our enemy India as a permanent member of the UNSC. I further suggest that Musharraf and his cronies convert to Hinduism, allow the Indian army to enter into Pakistan, shower them with roses with rented crowds on Wagah border, dismantle all mosques and construct Hindu temples and ultimately meld Pakistan into India.
I hope you and your buddies like Shujaat and Rashid will be rewarded for their services to your new found Hindu masters- as can been seen by the introduction of unIslamic practices and obscene pro-India Pakistani channels. -MAJ (Retd) MOHAMMAD SHUJAAT, Karachi, via e-mail, April 29.

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எனக்கு பர்வேஸ் முஷாரப் மீது எந்த விதமான அன்பும் இல்லை. ஏராளமான இந்திய போர்வீரர்களும் இந்திய மக்களும் அநியாயமாக கொல்லப்பட காரணமாக இருந்தவர் இவர்.

ஆனால், இறுதியில், அவர் இன்று இந்துமதத்தின் அருமை பெருமைகளை உணர்ந்து இந்துமதத்தை தழுவி, இந்துமதத்துக்கு பாகிஸ்தானியர்களையும் அழைத்து அழிவுப்பாதையிலிருந்து அவர்களை காப்பாற்றினால், அதற்காக பாராட்டுவேன்.

மேஜர் முஹம்மது ஷுஜாத்தின் வாக்கு பலிக்கட்டும்!