He said a media group was already predicting that he was going to become a political star.
“And the outgoing CJ kept the tradition of conferring favours upon that group,” he said in an interview. He alleged that during his seven-year tenure Justice (retd) Iftikhar Chaudhry followed a political agenda and gave political verdicts. “Instead of a judge, he presented himself as a politician and all his acts were political,” he said, adding that his acts had tarnished the dignity of the judiciary.
He alleged that the outgoing CJ’s personal affairs were also not transparent and there was a big question mark as to his character in connection with the controversy associated with his son.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2013.
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That is correct. Towards this end he tried to create his constituency consisting of Lawyers who behaved like thugs and Ifitikhar Ch. looked the other way. This was criminal.