gazoomartian
Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
thanks buddy, and thats only when i used only the rightbrain :24:
An account of Iftikhar Chaudherys Brilliant Career
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thanks buddy, and thats only when i used only the rightbrain :24:
merey bhai, Jab brain huge ho to sirf aik part (left part) use karney se kaam chal jaataa hey , lekin nannhey munney brains ko poora use karna parta hey......... like most of them!!!!!:133 (1)::133 (1)::biglaugh::biglaugh:
gazoomartian
Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
Moderator (s), can you please say something here so I would know who the mod is. Need to send you an email
Iftekhar M Choudhary and his tola are all corrupt and traitors as they are responsible destablizing the country and ruining it when everything was going alright.Our media is equally responsible for suffering of ppl.Gilani has filled their pockets therefore there no NRO discussion anymore.
MANNO
Councller (250+ posts)
Thank you Gazoo g, it means alot. You know what I believe those people wearning masks are even worse than Zardari! Atleast we know the truth about Zardari but who would raise a voice against these so called Heros.
mehwish_ali
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
جیتے رہیں مانوو ۔ آپ نے بہت ہمت کی کہ ان گونگے، بہرے اندھے لوگوں کو وہ حقیقت دکھانے کی جرات کی، وہ حقیقت جو پہلے دن سے ہمارے سامنے تھی مگر پہلےدن سے لیکر آج تک یہ لوگ اسے جھٹلاتے رہے۔
اور آج بھی یہ حقیقت دوبارہ طشت از بام کرنے پر یہ آپ پر پل پڑیں گے اور ہرگز اپنی آنکھیں کھولنے پر تیار نہ ہوں گے۔
اور آج بھی یہ حقیقت دوبارہ طشت از بام کرنے پر یہ آپ پر پل پڑیں گے اور ہرگز اپنی آنکھیں کھولنے پر تیار نہ ہوں گے۔
GeoG
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
GeoG
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
لعنت ان سب لوگوں پر جن کو چیف جسٹس کی چار غلطیاں تو نظر آتی ہیں مگر انپے لیڈروں کے بے حساب قتل اور گناہ نظر نہیں آتے
or lanat un jaahilon par jo mukhtalif logon ke l;iye mukhtalif qanoon rakhtey hain, or jin ki andhi aankhain haqeeqat dekhney se qaasir hain
GeoG
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
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Murshad Jee
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
By By Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: The superior judiciary, since its restoration last year, has taken up cases, involving over Rs400 billion and has saved tens of billions for the national exchequer, which almost certainly would have gone into the pockets of the powerful and mighty.
This figure is apart from the NRO cases that involve another Rs175 billion that were looted and are awaiting repatriation, the record of Supreme Court and the high courts shows. In addition to suo moto notices, taken in numerous human rights cases, cleansing the superior judiciary from the likes of Dogar and removing constitutional distortions introduced by General Musharraf and his hand-picked judges, the Supreme Court after its re-instatement in March 2009 has so far picked up for hearing corruption cases, illegal and controversial allotments of state-land on throw away prices, fraudulent bank loaning and other financial matters, involving billions and billions of rupees. These cases were taken up by the apex court when there were reports of worst corruption in government institutions.
March 9 has significance in Pakistan’s history when a chief justice uttered the historic “No” before the then mighty chief of Army staff, who was accompanied by his Inter Services Intelligence Chief and Military Intelligence head. It is the same month when last year people of Pakistan got restored the deposed judiciary.
The apex court, since March 2009, has not only made the previously Dogar-court protected Harris Steel owners to agree to cough up the Bank of Punjab’s Rs09 billion, but it has also made the Sindh government to cancel the controversial allotment of high-price Karachi land for peanuts.
In addition, the Supreme Court is also reviewing allotments of state-land both by the Sindh and Punjab governments during the past several years besides probing the Pakistan Steel Mills corruption case. Some of the major cases decided or taken up by the present Supreme Court include:
- Declaring Nov 3, 2007, actions unconstitutional: After Parliament failed to play its role in removing the constitutional distortions of the ousted dictator General Musharraf, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case and declared the November 3 emergency and PCO as unconstitutional, illegal and void and dismissed all the judges appointed on Dogar’s recommendation, ordered sending of references to the Supreme Judicial Council against PCO judges for taking oath under the PCO despite the 7-member bench orders of November 3 directed the government to lay all ordinances of Musharraf regime, promulgated during imposition of emergency period before parliament and get them approved within four months. As a result of this judgment, the whole superior judiciary was overhauled as over 100 PCO and Dogar-recommended Jiyala judges were sent home.
- Contempt of court notices to PCO judges: The Supreme Court issued contempt of court notices to those superior judiciary judges, who violated the seven-member bench verdict of November 3 which had barred these judges from taking oath under any emergency or PCO order of General Pervez Musharraf.
- NRO petitions: CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry constituted full court to hear NRO petitions, which were filed after promulgation of the NRO in 2007. These petitions challenged the NRO for being a discriminatory and unconstitutional law because of which alleged corruption of Rs300 billion was forgiven with one stroke of pen. On December 16, 2009, NRO was struck down by the SC.
- Evacuee Trust Property Board case: CJ through a suo moto action blocked controversial sale of 240 acres worth billions of rupees for peanuts Karachi land of Evacuee Trust Property Board. The report, which appeared in The News, had also revealed that almost each and every inch of the total 2,380 acres of state-owned land, belonging to the Evacuee Properties Trust (EPT) Board in Karachi worth a whopping Rs60 billion, has been grabbed by the land mafia. The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, issued orders that survey of land held by the Evacuee Trust be conducted and its current price be fixed.
- Bank of Punjab case: During the Musharraf regime, Haris Steel owners, in connivance with the then BoP President Hamesh Khan took a financial facility of Rs8.6 billion on fake collaterals, bogus documents and fraudulent companies. CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry after his restoration on March 16 took up the mega corruption scandal and ordered confiscation of assets of the looters and a considerable amount has so far been deposited with the BoP. Now the Harris Steel owner has assured the apex court that he would return all the money but named those top lawyers, bankers and a journalist who allegedly got millions from him to bribe the Dogar court. The Supreme Court has referred the case of lawyers, Babar Awan and Malik Qayyum, to the Pakistan Bar Council.
- Sindh land allotment cases: The News highlighted a glaring case of contempt of the highest judicial forum—the Supreme Court of Pakistan—where an official committee comprising middle ranking officials allowed regularization of 50 acres of Karachi land at throw away prices thus causing losses running into hundreds of millions to the state exchequer for the benefit of a few. The Supreme Court took suo moto notice of the case that led to the immediate cancellation of the allotment. However, the Supreme Court had called for all allotments made involving hundreds of billions of rupees land during the last ten years by the Sindh government to review each and every case.
- Federal Government Housing Foundation land scam: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took suo moto notice on a column of Daily Jang regarding illegal allotment of the government plots for peanuts by the Federal Government Housing Foundation besides the controversial purchase of over 2,000 kanals of land in the suburbs of Islamabad for the government housing scheme. The chief justice ordered the CDA to conduct an inquiry in this regard. The inquiry was concluded, and it proved that irregularities in plots’ allotment were made. The case is still pending with the apex court.
- Missing persons’ case: The Supreme Court directed the Interior Ministry to submit before the court details, pertaining to Pakistani citizens who have been handed over to foreign countries. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Javed Iqbal, hearing the case of missing persons, observed that it will not give more time to the government for tracing the whereabouts of the missing people.
- Punjab land allotments: The Supreme Court has directed the Punjab Board of Revenue to produce all cases of allotments made by the government during the last four-five years amid reports that thousands of acres of land was doled out to favourites.
- Steel Mills scandal: The CJ took suo moto notice of the loot and plunder of this national institution, including PSM, which involves a loss of Rs22 billion to the public sector enterprise. Because of the massive corruption in the PSM, the biggest steel unit of the country was defaulted. Pakistan Steel Mills reached to a stage of collapse because of award of all-important contracts to some favourite businessmen of the present regime. The latest hearing of the case was held on Monday.
- New Murree Project: SC also ordered end of New Murree Project—a Rs60 billion project—which was a man-made disaster for entire forest range of Murree.
- Following the demand of MQM chief Altaf Hussain, the SC also took up the matter of written off loans and directed the State Bank of Pakistan to submit the list. The list of SBP stated that loans worth Rs256 billion have been written off in last 38 years since 1971. The Supreme Court, in another case, also directed the government to ensure inheritance rights of eunuchs. It also suggested providing jobs to eunuchs in loan recovery department.
- Pakistan Cricket Board: The SC also took a suo moto notice of embezzlement of Rs07 billion by the Pakistan Cricket Board and has directed the board to submit its report.
- Supreme Court also did not spare plaza owners of Lahore and ordered dismantling of illegally constructed plazas. There are 122 plazas, which will be dismantled.
- Sugar price issue: After cartelisation of sugar mafia and unprecedented hike in sugar price, the apex court took suo moto notice and after hearing and analysing the whole sugar marketing process, fixed the sugar price at Rs40 per kg and ordered federal and provincial governments to take all necessary steps to ensure the sale of sugar in the whole country on the price as decided by the Supreme Court. However, the federal and provincial governments failed to implement the apex court’s decision.
- Carbon Tax suo moto notice: In the federal budget 2009-10, the government imposed 10 per cent petroleum levy which was meant for removing polluted contents from the petroleum products for betterment of environment. However, no consultation was done with the Ministry of Environment and the government’s financial managers admitted that despite its name it would simply be a government’s revenue generation source. The Supreme Court took suo moto notice and nullified carbon tax. However, the government proclaimed another ordinance within 48 hours and re-imposed the same percentage of levy on oil products but under a different name.
- Musharraf’s electricity theft case: After disclosure of theft of electricity of lacs of rupees by ex-military dictator General Pervez Musharraf and some other influential residents of Islamabad’s Chak Shahzad farmhouses, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took suo moto notice and ordered inquiry.
- Alleged corruption of former Attorney General Latif Khosa: The Supreme Court took up the case of alleged corruption of former Attorney General Latif Khosa on the application and affidavit of a citizen. The citizen had alleged that Latif Khosa had taken bribe of Rs03 million from him for influencing a court decision. The SC has referred this case to Pakistan Bar Council.
- The SC orders Punjab to reinstate ad hoc lecturers in three days: The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal of the Punjab government with costs and directed it to reinstate the 90 lecturers within three days. The lecturers were recruited in 1994, but their services were terminated in 2001. Later, the top court ordered reinstatement of their services on September 25, 2002, but the court’s order was not implemented by the then Punjab Government.
- Murree Gas Pipeline Project: The chief justice also took a suo moto notice of alteration in the Murree gas pipeline project, which was to benefit Hamza Shahbaz Sharif son of Punjab chief minister, who had constructed a bungalow at Dunga Gali. This alteration was costing Rs750million, along with destruction of thousands of trees. Another suo Moto action was taken over extension of the Canal Road, Lahore, where hundreds of trees were being cut to facilitate the elites.
- The Supreme Court also took notice of public flogging of a girl in Swat. Another important case of promotions of grade 21 officers was also heard by the SC. The SC also took up election petitions of Sheikh Rashid and others and ordered the Punjab Government to hold by-election in NA 55 and NA 123.
- On the orders of Balochistan High Court, a murder FIR has been lodged against Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf. Though it was the duty of the executive and Parliament to catch the alleged murderer, but he was facilitated in running away from the country.
- The Lahore High court took a suo moto notice of a daredevil day-light robbery in Murree where the authorities have found 15,000 kanals of reserved forest land, worth tens of billions of rupees, encroached by land mafia and ordered police to lodge FIRs against all encroachers.
* Besides these cases dozens of suo moto notices for recovery of abducted persons have also been taken. One such case is of recovery of Dr Lutufullah Kakakhel, Vice Chancellor of Kohat University, who was kidnapped from Kohat on 06-11-2009.
* Kidnapping for ransom and other heinous crimes have become a daily routine, and it is the Supreme Court that intervenes to prevent such crimes although it is the duty of the executive, which is idle.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=227979
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People do cricize his past but why do you forget that when Musharaf was enjoying the powers at its fullest he stood up and gave us hope . When this news broke up on 9th March 2007 that he resisted Musharaf , i prayed to Allah that make this issue the reason of throwing Musharaf out of his throne. He definetly had taken wrong decisions but there is a big list where he had done good works .The charges you mentioned against him are just nothing where Musharaaf had much bigger lists of charges. What happened next everyone knows .The supreme judicial council after long hearings chucked it into the bin. The nation stood behind him and in the last ten years the world had witnessed how much support he received from the civil society. People who put charges against him confessed they scandalised CJ to make things easy for musharraf. We don't worship him but support him for what he did for Pakistan.
1. He stopped the privatisation of steel mills .The biggest scam in the history of Pakistan
2. He stood against the agencies who kidnapped the civilians and sold them to US against dollars. Musharraf admitted his crime in his own book ''In the line of fire'' .Do read this book please. Its an eye opener for us. Missing people issue is a non issue for elite class of Pakistan as their loved ones are not missing.
3. He was hurdle for Musharaf as he challanged his presidency elections while in uniform. He could have favoured Musharraf to make his own life pretty easy.
4. He challenged the illegal decisions of govt taking suo motto actions.
5. He took suo motto action against the scam of Stock Exchange .This was the biggest scam of stock exchange history of Pakistan.
I admit his decisions in the past were wrong but he did make the right choice in the end
Now what he is doing now :
1 . He is listening NRO cases and hence corrupt elite class is certainly not happy.
2. He is bringing the so called diginteries into the court room and bashing them for their heinous crimes.
3. He ordered lower courts to speed up pending cases making sure the justice is not affected .This is the demand of every citizen of Pakistan whose cases are pending from decades. he has set the limits on the duration of each case.
4. He is listening cases of public interest as a main priority .
This list is too big .If you want to dig the hole you are most welcome.
Awards and honors ( source wiki )
Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom
In the wake of the imposition of emergency rule in Pakistan, on November 14, 2007, the Harvard Law School decided to award its highest honour, the Medal of Freedom, to Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, following the military crackdown the previous week. He becomes the first Pakistani to be presented with such honour.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry formally received the Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom during his visit to the United States in November, 2008.
National Law Journal Lawyer of the Year
The National Law Journal picked Mr. Chaudhry as the lawyer of the year for 2007.
New York City Bar Honorary Membership
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York granted Mr. Chaudhry an honorary membership in the association on Nov. 17, 2008, recognizing him as a "symbol of the movement for judicial and lawyer independence in Pakistan."
You are not alone raising this voice against him. The list is too big. You are not even counted. MQM, PMLQ, Some Corrupt beaurocrats, Army gernerals and agencies they all gathered hand to hand and kept on bashing him . I said already it's elite class who always had problems with the restoration of judiciary. Many of them who talked dirty about him had changed their stance .They are the ones who love to remain in power at any cost whatsoever.
rajakhanmd
Senator (1k+ posts)
CJ did many more things that are beyond professionalism, morality and principles. But he took a stand at a very important moment, the stand we all wish Justice Muneer would have taken. His stand gave people a hope, that things cannot always be what a dictator wants and we can move on from our past mistakes. Just imagine the situation in Pakistan if CJ would have resigned on that day????
There are still many burning issues which are not being addressed in the SC like Asghar Khan's petition etc. But at least we know that SC right now is not a rubber stamp. The troubles that we have created for ourselves. as a Nation and our institutions, they will not go away in one day. And, no one will descend from heavens to solve these problems. If we make our selves the prisoners of our past, our future cannot be a different one.
There are still many burning issues which are not being addressed in the SC like Asghar Khan's petition etc. But at least we know that SC right now is not a rubber stamp. The troubles that we have created for ourselves. as a Nation and our institutions, they will not go away in one day. And, no one will descend from heavens to solve these problems. If we make our selves the prisoners of our past, our future cannot be a different one.
I agree with the list posted regarding Ch Iftekhar's supposedly bad deeds. My point here is that in Pakistan's history many other judges have done those deeds as well. But how many judges, in our history, have taken sou moto actions to find out where Pakistani civilians have been taken without trials? How many have stood upto a dictator, what if he decided to do this at the end, the point is that he is the only jusdge in our history who did it. If Justice had not supported Ayub Khan in Maulvi Tameezuddin case may be our history would have been different.
MANNO
Councller (250+ posts)
I am sorry above issues didnt make any difference to a common man. How about taking Sou moto action against Zardari's 248 immunity? How about providing safe exit to corrupt fake degree holders? Please get it clear I am defending anyone nor I am against anyone, all I am trying to say that nobody is trustworthy in current setup and we will have to stop relying on such people and must get ready to do something tengible. Reason why I posted one sided story was very clear as I mentioned it before that people wearing masks are even worse than criminals such as Zardari, and when I hear people calling him a hero its hard to believe on!
Rana Tahir Mahmood
Senator (1k+ posts)
Delivering the benefits to people of Pakistan is government prime responsibility with the coordinated efforts by all government machinery. When you cannot find any such efforts by the state elements then no one can deliver anything to the people of Pakistan. We are a nation of versatile nature with their vested interests and by blaming to each other we cannot deliver anything to the people of Pakistan. Therefore it is immaterial to ask what CJ has done for the people of Pakistan as nothing has been done by the other organs of the State of Pakistan for the nation.
Otherwise, we would be a prosperous nation in the world.
Otherwise, we would be a prosperous nation in the world.
