Middle Ground?: Government, SC want to work towards resolving NRO issue: PM
In his opening remarks at the federal cabinet meeting, the prime minister said the institutions were looking for a solution to the NRO case in accordance with the law and the Constitution. “My appearance in the court is a testimony to our respect for the Courts,” Ashraf said. The prime minister strongly condemned the recent wave of terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan.
“The culprits of these terrorist acts will be brought to book. Such acts can never deter the government’s resolve to fight the menace of terrorism,” he added. Ashraf said that he had also asked the provincial government of Balochistan to implement the Supreme Court’s verdict in order to improve law and order situation in the province, adding that the government would extend its assistance to the Balochistan government and all possible measures would be taken for improvement in law and order situation.
(Read: The case of the Swiss letter)
Published in The Express Tribune, September 6th, 2012.
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With so much uncertainty for so long, the only victim of this political tug of war is Pakistan and its people. While these same judges could not prove one single case against PPP/Zardari despite keeping him in jail for 15 long years, they want the lowest court of a tiny country to try its sitting president. While the PCO judges reject the NRO but they are full beneficiary of it when reinstated by an NRO PM. Moreover, under NRO several thousand cases were dismissed including terrorism and multiple murders but the SC judges are only interested in one case. The more serious cases have not been pursued for reasons best known to them. In addition the SC goes on steroids on manufactured cases like Memo and giving stay order to Arsalan, and missing people in Baluchistan, there are no final verdicts of SC in any of these cases. They disappear with the speed at which they had appeared. When the Swiss courts have made it clear that they are not going to try a sitting president, what is the SC trying to achieve except the ego victory? The Swiss attorney general had also asked that if Pakistani courts are that much interested in trying Zardari why don’t they try themselves and do their primary job, and what has stopped our judges for so long? Outsourcing their moral and legal duties to Swiss court is scandalous at best and would not solve the real problems of Pakistani people. Who is going to invest in a country where there is no stable govt and it can be changed anytime on any excuse? After creating this hostile environment these same people malign the elected govt for not improving the plight of people!
MIDDLE WAY? You scratch Arsalan's Back and We'll STOP screwing you! Thats the only Middle way. OR cooperate with The Kangroos representative Party: ML-N i.e. My Lovely-Nawaz
Supreme Court has to compromise and the government has not.This statement proves that the government is still strong on its stance of not to write the letter to the Swiss authorities and wants to complete its tenure at any costs by using any easily possible available delaying tactics and lame excuses.......