PM Shoukat Aziz Ponders a Term for Chief Justice

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dear naqsh its just what it is and you haveevery right to draw your own conclusions. given the current situation who knows what comes next, things and policies are changing constantly and keep your fingers crossed for the next move.

Sehba ma'am as a back up candidate! Not much different from Bihar in India, one supposes, where Laloo Yadav enthroned his illiterate wife as the CM when he found himself ineligible for the post.

where is the pakistani hugo chavez?!

btw, at least all this has exposed musharraf as being a dictator like any other despite all his tall claims of moral superiority. he is trying everything to stay in absolute power.

his fall will come one day and when it does i fear it won't be pretty...

CJP should definitely convene the full bench ...

I am not sure why the Supreme Court has suddenly gone very silent.

If the CJ is smart, he should agree to convene a full bench (at JI's request) to hear JI's petition against the eligibility of PM, and the bench can rule in favor of the palintiff.
This will force PM to dissolve the NA; that would be the end of any scheme being cooked up to limit the CJ's term, for the time being at least.

However, this threat will remain in future even after PM is out of the picture. Let us not kid ourselves; neither PPPP nor PML-N are any more fond of an independent judiciary than is the current govt. The bill will likely be resurrected, and could get approved as well. Reason: the judiciary itself, escpecially the HC judges. After all, this is exactly how NS got rid of Sajjad Ali Shah.

They are all naked in the nApAk hammam of the land of the pure; the judges, themselves, are no exception.

Everybody else has term limits -- only dictators are for EVER!

Should we even dignfy this stupid proposal by a stupid craven bankteller with an intellectual discussion -- jesus christ.

It is sheer blackmail. Terms and conditions of the service of the CJ are determined by the constitution which they are not in a position to amend at present.

Now here another juicy scoop -- "Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, had suggested that Musharraf's wife, Sebha, could be a backup candidate for the presidency if Musharraf was ruled ineligible to run. He defended the notion as “traditional� in Pakistani politics. “I don't know if it would be acceptable to the president or his wife,� Azim said. "

of course they will jump at the idea -- Son Bilal will be the the backup Coass with Chaudhrani Hussain as the backup Pangkha lady for the backup Queen Sehba -- with king Musharraf in a Nursing Home for the mentally challenged -- and the Chaudhry brothers, will perform as the back up Court Jesters in the Queen's zanaan khana.

"President is already facing an uphill task of managing the two arch rivals; i.e Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif besides a possible challenge from the Supreme Court to his nomination as a presidential candidate, such a move could gravely harm the cause of Gen. Musharraf to seek re-election, commented a senior political analyst."(author)

By God I did not know that -- tnanks for the scoop!