The premier’s counsel, Aitzaz Ahsan, continued with his arguments before a seven-member bench headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk. He said that writing a letter to the Swiss authorities will disgrace the president in front of the world.
The bench observed that it was not the Supreme Court that had leveled graft charges against President Asif Ali Zardari, but the Swiss authorities were doing so.
Ahsan said that heads of states do not surrender their sovereignty in front of another country’s magistrate.
The apex court adjourned the hearing till Tuesday, April 24, 2012.
During Thursday's hearing, referring to the six options that the Supreme Court had rolled out before the premier on January 10, Ahsan had said that this was a perfect example of a “pre-trial” and these options were nothing but a conundrum and were like “nuclear bombs, daisy-cutters and carpet bombing”.
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I am a PPP fan, the only forword looking party be proud of ZARDAI , I am
@Elcay: You are totally lost my friend. He is not arguing immunity. His point is that immunity is ironclad and undisputed. And if PM has not written a letter, he has acted in good faith and hence no contempt of court.
I am not a fan of PPP. But what the Supreme Court has been doing over the last year is nothing but witch hunting. How many cases of corruption in the military has the SC taken suo-moto notice of? They are obviously getting their orders from GHQ but where is the "Independent Judiciary"??
Sometime AA is arguing immunity, othertime says he is defending contempt only. Is he sure what he is doing?
everybody wants to use suprem court as a stick to beat people they don't like politically
"writing a letter to the Swiss authorities will disgrace the president in front of the world."
If writing a letter to the Swiss authorities is disgraceful for the President then electing a convict of graft money laundering as the President of Pakistan is also equally disgraceful for the country and the post of President. Now he wants to hide behind the Presidential immunity to escape the punishment, further disgracing the country and the post.
I would be very interested in Ahsan's assets before and after this Trial.
Aitzaz Ahsan calls the six options, the Supreme Court had set out before the PM, perfect example of a “pre-trial”---wow, and so it seems, actually. Aitzaz the intellectual condemns these options and puts them in the same 'pre-emptive' category of weapons as “nuclear bombs, daisy-cutters and carpet bombing”. Now this is piece of literature, best metaphorical language I came across and I guess even the judges of the bench there. This is imagism at its best. Great intellectual lawyer, good public thinker, this man---- Aitzaz Ahsan!
... there is disgrace for the post of President and the Country, in a President flouting and frustrating the law ...
... there is no disgrace for the post of President or the Country, in a President being held accountabe ...
... in fact, the position of Pakistan will be elevated in the comity of nations ... if President is jeld accountable ...
Just shows how weak and ineffective our Supreme Court is. They are trying to justify and apologize even before they announce their final judgement.
Every day some President or PM is brought to book a before a Court of Law. He will be no different.The people of Pakistan will be very happy to hand him over.