Justice is blind, but it is half-blind in Pakistan

As reported, the legal fraternity has planned to take on lawyers who would defend former president General Pervez Musharraf in any court of law. The report further said anyone who would represent Musharraf in the Supreme Court would be an unfortunate lawyer. The lawyers community has conveyed to all those, who have hinted to become former president’s counsel that they would have to face the brunt of their fellow colleagues, if they offered their services to the person who allegedly brutalised the law professionals. The lawyers offering their services to the former president would become a security problem for the administration since a number of groups were hell-bent on taking revenge from Musharraf.

A former attorney general and eminent lawyer, Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, who is viewed as the author and inventor of mechanism that General Pervez Musharraf initially followed, has denied appearing on behalf of the former president. Sharifuddin Pirzada, who had detailed discussions with his colleagues here during the last one week on different legal matters, including one of Pervez Musharraf, left for Karachi on Friday. He is expected to be here on Wednesday next when Musharraf has to appear before the apex court. Pirzada will be present in the courtroom during the next hearing, but it is unlikely that he would take part in the arguments.

Today is the third day since this report was published, but no clarification/denial/suo motto so far, confirming the authenticity of the report and the legal community’s determination to continue with their terror by making the courts ‘no go’ areas for the dissenting lawyers, brazenly announcing to have taken hostage of the eminent lawyer Sharifuddin Pirzada and hurling all sorts of horrifying threats to the dissenters as well as the accused and their families seem reminiscent of those most feared Baitullah Mehsud, Fazllulah and other Fata, Swat terrorists, with whom our Army is currently engaged with.

Meanwhile, the Army has placed the services of a serving Army colonel who is still chief security officer of the former president at the disposal of the Interior Ministry. The colonel, who is highly professional and comes from a sensitive unit of the Army, was the CSO of the former president. Another major of the Army, who worked with Musharraf as his ADC, has sought retirement from the service and has volunteered his services for his boss. He too is looking after the protocol for the general and assisting in security, the sources said.

Let us pray that good sense will soon prevail before the rivals lose patience.