By: onix

onix — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:23:09 +0000

i am surprised to see no comments on this. Perhaps the rhetorics is to farflung. To be honest i associated chaudry with a politically motivated notion in pakistan, especially in the sense that sharia laws be used as a pretext for inviting political change, in a imho. not very safe or progressive direction.
As a result of my personal bottom-up experiences with “justice”, i can tell mr chaudry this justice is an illusion. By having the best lawyers available and underlining their extreme influence mr chaudry does not stand out in that respect, i’v had my share of judges with a monetary, personal or class related bias.
I also think there is hardly credibility in the statement that what mr chaudry said was not politicised. Every human is politicised and certainly a dethroned chief of justice. However that is a fundamental right of his, to have personal opinions. It is not a right of anyone to use the juridical institutions to forward any goal outside justice. Justice should be exactly like i believe mr chaudry has tried to show, unbiased and nonpolitical.
However in the international context, the internal pakistani powerstruggle should be a reason for second thought. To my regret i must express all the powerplays (and rebellion) in pakistan bode no much good, I would apreciate when people like mr chaudry work constructively to a solution that would encompass calmth in the face of powerchange, and objectivity before political siding.
I hope that way pakistan can get a government that will still be good for the people and especially the poor, without the terrible troubles that are lurching. (us intervention again,
pakistan politics on sale, poverty, etc). Ways to achieve this in my opinion are the supporting of a multi party politics, and evading polarisation. My excuses if my impressions of the powerplays in pakistan are all wrong , however i will not become convinced of that by only more elaborate text, or western media outlets, including alJ.
Don’t fight, talk only. Be tolerant, and with some luck the storm won’t overthrow the glass of water it is raging in. (that is not to mr chaudry personally, but to pakistan) Good luck with organising functional freedom of expression eg. for politics. To me it seems pakistan under musharaf came closer to that then ever before. again.. correct me if i am wrong.

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