Hello everybody - Everyone is talking about the notice sent by the Supreme court to Gen. Musharraf and what may come of it. I would like to hazard my guess. A top notch lawyer will appear on his behalf (S.S. Pirzada or A.H. Pirzada maybe through Malik Qayyum) and a preliminary objection will be taken that the action of November 03, 2007, was taken in the capacity of the Chief of Army Staff and as such cannot be called in question in the Supreme court. The Court might decide to hear the objections and decide to over-rule them, but more likely might say that they would like to hear the entire case and decide the issue and the main case together. Also an objection may at some stage be taken that the Chief Justice should not hear the case as he was personally affected by the actions taken. What will happen next will be discussed in my next post.

ELECTION BOYCOTTERS & LOSERS

The plethora of private TV channels has provided an opportunity for every Qazi, Imran and Shaikh to somehow squeeze space for themselves into our sitting rooms -uninvited, unconvincing and unwelcome. Yet they are there no matter how many buttons you press on the remote. They refuse to answer questions put to them directly and will say the same thing over and over again. Verbosity is a word unknown to them. In this my first posting I would like to request them and their ilk to first establish their credentials before they open their mouths. Qazi Hussain Ahmed (who incidently has a son studying in America) and Imran 'the lone ranger' Khan (educated in the UK) are election boycotters and therefore have no locus standi to either speak on behalf of the people or criticise a government they did not vote for or against. Please wait until the next elections and politely turn down offers of TV appearances. Shaikh Rasheed of the infamous 'Lal Haveli' forfieted his deposit in the last elections and therefore should not speak for the people.
Qazi Hussain is an American baiter and because of the failed policies of the current US administration has many listeners. But please listen to his expalanation for sending his son to study in the US: "He was studying a subject for which there were no 'boys only' institution in Pakistan. So he had to go to America!
I think that statements like that are an abuse to our intelligence. More later.