President Zardari Shuts Up
Readers will know that President Zardari in line with the esteemed office he holds, issued a shut up call in a public speech as shared below:
It is poetic justice that today the President himself has been forced to shut up after his failed judicial coup. The President has been forced to shut up and silent is the Presidency for the time being, or at least till the next crisis given his judicial coup of recent days has failed miserably.
As is now routine during the Zardari presidency, President Zardari first blunders amidst much bravado and grandstanding, yet when faced with opposition the President backs down in supersonic speed. And so the shut up call the President issued in a public speech has come back to haunt him as today the President is forced to bite his lip.
The Chief Justice of Pakistan acted with good intention in seeking to defuse the crisis even though some brother judges did not agree with his meeting with the Prime Minister at PM House. The Chief Justice has shown that the judiciary is not partisan by consulting with the PM on the appointment of judges at PM House. Indeed learned jurists have criticised the meeting for going against the Judicial Code of Conduct and I would agree normally that it is not conducive for the head of the judiciary and the executive to meet.
PM Gilani did well too in saving the day as per his usual flip-flops that raised the political temperature in one day, only for a retraction thanks to the counsel of the great Aitzaz Ahsan culminating in a now legendary dinner meeting in the Supreme Court. A weak President Zardari is left even weaker and it is hoped that the President will learn from the episode, I fear he will not.
