Hussain Haqqani Should be on the ECL, Not on a Flight to America

Perhaps the Supreme Court got offended that Mansoor Ijaz refused to come to Pakistan for testimony despite security assurances. The Supreme Court is requested to take into consideration that Pakistan is a country where high-profile people like Akbar Bugti, Benazir Bhutto and supposedly Osama bin Laden have been killed despite tight security whether their own or of the state. Hence, it is not surprising that Mansoor Ijaz feared his life.

I personally feel that the Memogate is very much true, and if it is true and if such plans get implemented in the future, neither the Supreme Court, the Army and nor the government officials will suffer any harm for they move around in security protocols and have the means to leave the country anytime. It is us, the public, the common man who would suffer legalized aggression, terrorism and infiltration of foreign agents and agenda within our homeland.

With due respect, the Supreme Court has been unable to get the government to write a letter to the Swiss government. How does the Supreme Court expect Hussain Haqqani to appear before the court when ordered and the fact that he will not disappear into the blue?

Allowing Hussain Haqqani to go out of the country and to America is very discouraging and dangerous for the future of Pakistani politics and encouraging to treacherous elements within it.

The Supreme Court is requested to review its decision, call back Hussain Haqqani before he disappears for good and put his name on the ECL.

First Asma Jahangir, Now Aitzaz Ahsan

Aitzan Ahsan, we were definitely besotted with your sincerity, bravery and vision when you used to recite your revolutionary poem and you dared to lead the Restoration of Judiciary Movement in 2008/9.

The anticlimax came when you opted to defend President Zardari soon after and said that the President enjoyed immunity against criminal charges. And now you are going to defend Prime Minister Gilani for not writing to the Swiss authorities to investigate corruption charges.

What’s wrong, sir? Did we make a mistake? Did we read you wrong for your virtuousness? You think that President Zardari is above Syedna Fatima binte Muhammed (Peace be upon him), for whom the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said that even if she commits theft, her hands will be cut off?

News Item: http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/17/aitzaz-to-represent-pm-in-sc.html

Memogate Injustice worse than Insanity

Dawn, January 16, 2012: “Finding Husain guilty of treason is like finding democracy guilty of treason,” says one US analyst.

After reading the above statement, my vocabulary has failed me and I am looking for a word that describes a mindset worse than insanity.

How can the American senators and scholars give any argument in favor of Haqqani’s clear treason? Worse, they are attempting to label ISI Chief Shuja Pasha for treason because he sought to verify the Memogate allegation on his own. What else was he supposed to do? Seek permission from a government who is supposed to be the culprit itself in the Memogate issue? What would have been the “democratic reply”? ‘Ahan! So you have found out that we were committing treason against the country. Very good. Yes, please go and investigate about our attempt…’

And where is the balance of accusations for treason? One side is being accused of calling upon a foreign country against the country’s armed forces to protect one’s political seat. The other is being accused of trying to verify this allegation without “permission”. Are there any balancing scales in the world which can even remotely make any balance between these two allegations under Article 6?

Hilary, what about Democracy in Saudi Arabia?

Ms. Hilary Clinton has said that they strongly stand-by the democratically elected government of Pakistan. Ms. Hilary Clinton has said this in the background of the Memogate proceedings.

I would like to ask Ms. Hilary Clinton why America has never bothered to preach democracy to the Saudi Kingdom and other Middle East dictatorships who have been bosom buddies to America and served their agenda well?

Rehman Malik says we have only Five

Rehman Malik has said that only five PPP members have benefited from the NRO while there are others in it from other political parties.

Only five? Rehman Malik, it is not about quantity only, it is about quality as well. It depends what those five have done and then gained immunity upon it. Corruption, murder and treason; these are offences of varying temperature and need to be dealt with in a proportionate magnitude.

Dancing to Death

I am not being judgmental nor am I being condescending. I feel extremely sorry for my three sisters who died in the concert at Al-Hamrah Art Center, Lahore, and pray that Allah SWT have mercy on them and rest their souls in peace, Ameen.

As our youth is going through a much-wanted social and political awareness, I would request them to seek religious awareness as well. Study the Quran and Hadith and know your religion. Be informed as to what you should be doing and what not, for the following Hadith disturbed me very much when I heard the news,

“As you die, so shall you rise...”.

Military Courts or Not

Mian Nawaz Sharif is being slammed from almost every direction upon his comments about military courts. The debate is whether military courts are a solution or not in the face of non-functional civil courts. This non-functionality could be due to the courts themselves being corrupt, or the surrounding mafia harassing it into non-functionality.

What upsets me is that people take on a very aggressive tone whenever the word ‘military’ appears anywhere, but speak in easy, flippant tones about the loopholes of the other institutes of the state.

I feel that it is very easy to talk about ideal systems when the little boy who was raped and murdered was not your son.

Military court or civil court, I would like to see justice happen. Justice is much more important than the name of the court!

Asma Jahangir Disillusioned Me

I had great respect for Asma Jahangir. I thought that despite the fact that she is a secular and I am religion-oriented, we still had a common goal otherwise; human rights for all, struggling against oppression and being patriotic.

I was shocked to learn that Asma Jahangir had decided to defend Hussain Haqqani in the Memogate scandal. I really hope Asma, that you truly believed him to be innocent and did not choose to defend him just because he belonged to the secular lobby.