The terrific response of Chief Justice Justic Iftikhar Chaudhary US visit, the honors he got from the NYC Bar (Life Time Membership recognizing him as a “symbol of the movement for judicial and lawyer independence in Pakistan.”) & Howard Law School (HLS Medal of Freedom) is sufficient enough to prove what world thinks and what is the level of his efforts & struggle. He becomes the first Pakistani to be presented with such honour and we handed over him to Naiks, Khosas & Awans… What a nation we are!!!

Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom is given to selected personalities for their contributions to freedom, justice, and equality. Only two persons before him has been awarded by this honor. Charles Hamilton Houston an African American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director who helped play a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and helped train future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, was the first one. Former South African President Nelson Mandela is the second one and now a great honor of Asians especially Pakistani people that CJ Iftikhar has been honored.

Practically the people of Pakistan are robbed, rapped and murdered on a daily basis, for long they have hoped to see justice prevail but when they sit to watch nothing happen after the May 12 Massacre, December 27th Assassination or the April 9th lawyer burning incidents, one incident after another with no individual being brought to justice. Then this frustration builds up to an extent that an angry mob might take matters into their own hands to do such acts publicly on Nishter Road, Karachi. I assure you any argument still does not justify the action taken by this ruthless crowd, they are no different then the criminals themselves, but one must for a moment try to understand the gravity of the situation.

When dictators are not punished for committing treason against the nation, when the people watch helplessly a few Army Generals amass wealth hoardings without accountability, when criminals and murderers get amnesty under NRO, when crooks like Salman Taseer and Rehman Malik come to power, when courts are filled with PCO goons, this is what happens when people do not have faith in the courts.

Its quite simple to understand that a just society can only survive, when criminals across the board are held accountable for their actions, it is only then will Pakistan resume it trek forward, economic stability and surmount the looming food or electricity crisis. Possible only good intelligent (and honest) procedures are put in place along with a judiciary which needs to be fundamentally independent to gain trust of its people or else it shall always remain a rubber stamp for the establishment like it has always been for the past 60 years.

All I can hope is to have Justice prevail in Pakistan while at the same time I shed a tear to sincerely pray for God to have mercy on us & reinstate the CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry back!!!