The
Chief Justice and His Lawyers
By Col. Riaz Jafri
(Retd)
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
On a TV show “Live with
Tallat” on 21 May 2007 Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan
passed a highly derogatory and the most unbecoming
remark about the Chief Justice of Pakistan, lowering
his prestige in the eyes of the viewers. He said,
"I did not allow him (CJ) to lower the left
side window of the car (words to that effect)",
implying that the CJ was not allowed by him to
talk to any one throughout their 25-hour journey
from Islamabad to Lahore.
From his remarks one wonders how helpless has
the CJ become in the hands of his political lawyers
that he cannot even lower his side of the car
window! How dare a lawyer tell the entire world
on the media that he didn’t allow the Chief
Justice of Pakistan to even lower his side of
the car window?
Had such a remark been passed by Senator Agha
or someone else, the TV talk show host Tallat
Hussain would have pounced upon him highlighting
the utterance made against the CJ and rubbing
this point again and again. Why did he not take
Aitzaz Ahsan to task and make him apologise publicly
for uttering such a humiliating remark about the
Chief Justice of Pakistan?
Obviously, because of the biased reporting and
projection by the compere of the Aaj TV. Aitzaz
has certainly no right to lower the prestigious
image of the august Chief Justice of Pakistan
in the eyes of the Pakistanis and others by his
utterly nonsensical remarks and must apologise
publicly on air for it.
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