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Pak Chief Justice downplays fears over judiciary-executive clash | Down playing fears about the judiciary and the executive being on a collision course, Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said the country's democratic set-up would be protected at all costs. Hearing a case challenging the recent promotion of
civil servants, Chaudhry said: "We are here to protect parliament and democratic
system." "We have appreciated parliament for not validating unconstitutional and
illegal acts of Nov 3, 2007, (when former President General Pervez Musharraf announced
emergency and deposed superior court judges)," The Dawn quoted Chaudhry, as saying.
Chaudhry was speaking after government's counsel, Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, said that
promotions were purely the job of the government and the judiciary had nothing
to do with them. Pirzada had raised fears regarding a clash between the executive
and the judiciary. It is worth mentioning here that in a major reshuffle Prime
Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had changed almost the entire bureaucracy, replacing
over a dozen federal secretaries and announcing changes in several other ministries
by promoting several civil servants to Grade-22. The bureaucrats, who were not
promoted, challenged Gilani's decision in the court of law, pleading massive injustice,
rather "corruption", done to them. |
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