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Like the female Cobra, our Judiciary seems to devour its children by either throwing them to the wolves or simply reducing some of their historic decisions to a meaningless pile of paper.
In this regard the most bizarre but bald episode is that of Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz. The more one ponders, the more amazed one becomes at the judicial gymnastics that were performed to benefit these two, completely out of the way and at an exceptional scale.
A bench led by the future CJ Supreme Court disqualifies Nawaz Sharif and a NAB Court sentenced him to jail and a hefty fine in one case and suspiciously acquitted in another. The swollen-headed fellow fails to appeal, and the verdict is final. His imperious shrew of a daughter Maryam Nawaz outdoes her father in forgery, lies and falsification. She is convicted and handed down a seven-year jail term and earns the disgraceful badge of dishonor as Calibri Queen for having falsified a document in Calibri font dated a year before the font was officially marketed.
The real judicial jugglery starts now. Thanks to pussyfooting Punjab PTI government, NS lived like a prince in Kot Lakhpat Jail and eventually his daughter too like a princess. Then NS and his gang conceived and implemented a unique plan of a life-threatening drop-in Nawaz Sharif’s platelets bribing their way through the medical experts and then smoke-screened the two High Courts and the Cabinet to fly abroad never to return.
In this disgraceful tale of deception and lies the role played by IHC followed by LHC remains an indelible black spot on our higher judiciary. IHC asked a godly guarantee from the state if Nawaz Sharif will live for the next 3 days. The right answer to this utterly stupid question would have been does the Court have a life guarantee that it would definitely live to announce pending decisions in future dates? Future, Sir, is a reasonable assumption not a definite undertaking.
Meanwhile, LHC outdid itself in obliging the ‘Don of Lahore’ by most ridiculously allowing this habitual liar to fly out of the country on Rs50 affidavit by his equally lying younger brother. The irony is that LHC has never turned around to ask Shehbaz Sharif why Nawaz Sharif has not returned even after two years and why should he not be hauled up for failing to bring him back as committed in his affidavit before the Court? LHC is kind but selectively.
While Nawaz Sharif seemed to recover his ghost platelets in no time in his palatial but of inexplicable wealth flats in London, the Shrew from Jati Omra Maryam Nawaz applied for permission to attend to her ‘ailing’ father expected to return. She got the bail, but her father never came. It has been more than two years that she is on that unusual judicial compassionate bail scurrying around ridiculing, threatening and even dictating to the Supreme Court what decisions to give in cases before them but astonishingly no court could haul her up for these smear attacks and lock her up back into the jail?
Why is that, asks every thinking person. She publicly claimed and is famously in possession of dirty videos of certain key figures just as she was able to pressurize late Judge Arshad to acquit her father in one case to make the other verdict suspect. The weapon used was his dirty video recorded more than a decade ago. That should tell you how scheming their sleazy minds are.
Is the threat of a possible indecent exposure so comprehensive to make a due and required court action against her impossible? Hers is a queer bail in many ways indeed. Never before and not afterwards will a woman ever expect to be accorded a rare and a special privilege by High Courts of Pakistan as was rolled out for Maryam Nawaz. Can somebody tell what and how much does the higher judiciary owe to the House of Sharifs if at all?
Disenfranchising Overseas Pakistanis and Disfiguring NAB Laws
PDM which apparently removed PTI because of back breaking inflation soon gave up pretensions and began to work on their real agenda. First and foremost, in their actual list of priorities was to defang and eventually burry the NAB alive. They passed amendments to NAB laws practically converting the institution into an orphanage and in the process removed the ever-hanging Sword of Damocles from their fat plundering necks. That means 1100 billion rupees of public money lost to these thieves goes unaccounted for. If these fellows dodge the law by such technical chicanery and the Judiciary fails to nab, then rest assured popular reaction, as and when it might happen, will be violent and no holds barred. Because let me remind Your Lordships that these are the men who literally took away clothes from the people’s children, food from their mouths and uncovered their families to hunger, disease, malnutrition, death by dearth and suicides. These very fellows have brought this great nation and the country to imminent default and made us into global beggars. Do not be lured by their solemn undertakings and smooth looks, they are accomplished fraudsters and genetic liars who laugh in their sleeves for having successfully hoodwinked the Justices. Sir sometimes sit down and examine their body language and facial expressions which can easily beat a wolf’s scowl any time.
Their next nagging fear was the huge mass of overseas Pakistanis who appeared strongly pro IK and thus could turn the scale against Coalition in the next elections along with blocking the use of EVM. Therefore, with an unholy haste Shehbaz Sharif’s NA disenfranchised millions of Overseas Pakistanis and disallowed use of EVM during future elections, on very shabby grounds. These incidents clearly prove that Coalition is legislating not in public interest but in narrow self-interest. The petitions are before the relevant High Courts and the Supreme Court. Will they undo these daylight robberies and put some sense into Coalition legislators the way they did with Qasim Khan Suri, or would they deploy behind the usual, non-interference in parliamentary affairs lame argument?
It is not nice and valiant to shy away when faced with a stronger adversary but throw the book upon the weaker ones. Such variations go into public memory and erupt in unexpected ways at the wrong time with uncalculated consequences. It will be appropriate to keep in mind Sri Lanka’s recent upheaval for gauging public reaction, though for more advanced reasons. By and large we are more than three quarters of the way in the same direction.
Case of the Ambassador’s Cipher and the Perception of Regime Change Conspiracy
This is the first ever case of Byzantine intrigue played in full public view in Pakistan by the US and its proxies in recent history. It was quite unlike US habit of incognito manipulations of regime change in target countries. Besides the arrogance of power and the incompetence the other major reason could have been their estimate that Pakistani people have been thoroughly enslaved and corrupted by their local agents and would accept quietly what US might present. An awful mistake and a badly botched operation it turned out to be. They failed to gauge the depth and clarity of IK’s resilience and his popular appeal. A tenacious IK was removed by a brazenly bought and manipulated vote of no confidence right under Your Lordship’s watch. The higher courts did open in the middle of that night not to dispense justice but to block any possible (legitimate) move by PTI government to thwart the conspiracy, as clarified by CJ IHC recently. Most conspicuous and prime witnesses in this unfortunate conspiracy of sorts are two: the Ambassador’s cipher and our Ambassador to the US himself. The President of Pakistan and PTI Speaker NA’s letters to the Supreme Court containing copies of the notorious cipher are on record requesting for a judicial enquiry into the matter.
The flow of events before and after IK’s removal, imbecile Donald Lu’s most arrogant warning to Pakistan in person to our Ambassador and IK’s skillful use of convincing logic and appeal to the masses turned the tables on the US and its proxies in power. Ever since they are busy in damage control and are failing miserably, such that within months IK has got into a position of strength and at the cusp of carrying the day anytime. Your Lordship may I suggest to seriously consider conducting a judicial enquiry before it is too late. People want to know the facts from you before the dam bursts. Thereafter sadly according to Omar Khayyam;
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”