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'Chastened' Musharraf confesses removing Chief Justice was wrong | |
Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf,
for the first time, has admitted that his action of disposing the judges of higher
judiciary was a mistake. Delivering a lecture at the Trinity University, San Antonio,
Texas, Musharraf said that it was a mistake on his part to remove Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry from his office. "Now, after seeing the incidents following
his dismissal from the office I realized that I shouldn't have done that," Musharraf
said. "It was a mistake to send the reference against him to Supreme Judicial
Council, though it was my constitutional and legal obligation... The reference
resulted in a chaos in the country... Probably I won't commit such things in future,"
Musharraf confessed in front of more than 2000 people present there. Musharraf
said he had no personal grudge against Chaudhry at the time when he removed the
latter. Musharraf, however, said that his actions were in the larger interest
of the nation and democracy. "I had no other choice but to depose the CJP in order
to prevent the democratic system of that time," The Nation quoted Musharraf, as
saying. Musharraf had deposed Chaudhry along with 60 other judges of higher judiciary
on November 9, 2007 as the Chief Justice had declared the former general's decision
to impose an emergency in the Pakistan, as illegal and 'extra-constitutional'. |
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