It is unfortunate that the president chose to malign the judiciary during his visit to the five European countries. On the one hand he says the foreign media interferes in Pakistan’s internal affairs and on the other he maligns the country himself on foreign lands. He castigated deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and other sacked judges of the superior judiciary for their corruption, which is unproven in any court of law.
Why is it that the president generally feels more comfortable with the Westerners than the people at home? He should be asked as to how a judge, who has earned public sympathy by taking up the cases of human rights, can be a risk to his own countrymen. He is a failure as the ruler of this country because he couldn’t fulfil a single pledge he made in his seven-point agenda upon coming into power nine years ago. His handpicked governor of the State Bank, Shamshad Akhtar, has recently termed the claim of ‘high growth’ a gigantic hoax. The results of his prolonged rule can be seen in the form of the crises, which have gripped the country one after another.