ISLAMABAD -- Already cornered by the Supreme Court’s decision on the NRO and expecting the bombshell of the detailed judgment anytime, certain elements in the government are trying hard to create divisions within the superior judiciary so that the alleged looted money remains safe in offshore accounts, and corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari are not re-opened.

However, to their bad luck they are facing failure and have reached a dead end in their bid to cause any rift in the superior judiciary. While the government wants to outmaneuver Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry’s recommendations for the appointment of judges in the Supreme Court, the respected second most senior judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC), Justice Saqib Nisar, categorically told The News: “I am at the beck and call of my chief justice (Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry).”
Honorable LHC Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif when approached last week by President Zardari’s confidant and Law Minister Babar Awan with the offer that the federal government wants to see Justice Khawaja Sharif in the apex court, the LHC CJ was also categorical in his response that he would sincerely follow any decision taken by the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
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