| Award for Aitzaz |
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He is the person who surrendered at Islamabad by calling of long march for which lawyers and civil society from all over the country braved tremendous hazards and difficulties of long journeys in steaming hot weather.
Aitzaz joined lawyers' movement as a driver of Ch Iftikhar and then pledged to drive judicial bus that was never run. He held press conferences frequently and because of this he came to limelight. On the basis of his projection in these press conference Foreign Policy journal of US declared him as intellectual.
Basically he is member and jiala of PPP and he holds his party on priority. His loyalties to lawyers' movement are doubtful or secondary.
As regards detention, about five thousands lawyers suffered detention, police torture and humiliation. None of the lawyers' leaders enquired of these sufferers nor did they appreciate them in writing.
Because of poor leadership, young lawyers have lost enthusiasm and tempo of the movement is dying down. The persons that have recommended him for this great award are the people who are under his influence and obligation.
He claims that he pleaded and won the reference case against chief justice. In this respect I shall say that this case was won because of the pressure and support of lawyers' movement. He fought case of Zardari and Benazir when she was ousted by Farooq Laghari. That time support and pressure of public in support of Benazir was absent. Therefore his intelligence did not work and he lost the case miserably.
Ask lawyers of lower courts about the standard of Aitzaz as a leader and they will not recommend him for such a prestigious award.
Where are human rights in Pakistan for the poor? There is no one to defend these basic rights. A special group of land lords, generals, and feudal waderas, pirs, and Gadi nashins are ruling the country. All wealth and national resources are in their hands. They come to power in turn and exploit the poor to maximum in the name of either democracy or Islam. But their real motives are to promote their own interests.
Aitzaz is a feudal land lord. He is member of special class of rulers. He may be sympathetic to people but he is not serious to change the feudal political culture of the country. Recently it is learnt that on behalf of Zardari he met CJ Iftikhar to ask him for resignation.
He has also called an emergency meeting of lawyers' representatives tomorrow i.e. on 23 Aug 2008to take them in confidence on what he was told by his boss Zardari.
Had some lawyers at the bottom been awarded such prestigious awards it would have been a milestone in history of lawyers struggle for promoting democratic values and restorings independence of judiciary.
Well done awarder of the award and the people who recommended the same.
Gangly Khan
Mandi Bahauddin
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