Tuesday 1 March 2011

SC orders to remove DG FIA within 3 days

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday has ordered the government to remove the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Wasim Ahmed in three days. During the hearing of Haj corruption case, the chief justice said that Wasim Ahmed had botched up Haj scam probe. The court ordered the FIA to submit its daily report of the Haj scam case in the chamber of Justice Raja Fyaz. The chief justice also reprehended Azam Sawati for not producing evidences against Hamid Saeed Kazmi. The CJ ordered the FIA to act against Member National Assembly Imran Shah for leveling fake charges at Abdul Qadir Gilani. The hearing was adjourned for two weeks.



Supreme Court suspends Parliamentary Committee's decision


While suspending Parliamentary Committee’s decision wherein it did not confirm the extension to two additional judges of the Sindh High Court, The Supreme Court of Pakistan has restrained the federation from issuing notification in pursuance of the committee’s recommendations. About two weeks ago a two-member bench had overruled the decision of the Parliamentary Committee, which had denied extension to four additional judges of Lahore High Court - Justice Muhammad Yawar Ali, Justice Syed Mazahir Ali Akbar Naqvi, Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh and Justice Muhammad Farrakuh Irfan Khan. The Parliamentary Committee on February 22 rejected the Judicial Council's recommendations for two additional judges of the SHC namely Justice Mohammad Tasneem and Justice Salman Hamid. A four-member bench headed by Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui and comprising Justice Jawwad S Khawja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Pervaiz was hearing the constitution petitions of Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA), Munir Hussain Bhatti Advocate and Kamran Murtaza against the PC for not confirming the nomination of two additional judges of SHC and four additional judges of LHC respectively.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan
Makhdom Ali Khan, counsel for Munir and Murtaza, informed the court that he had not yet received the committee’s reasons. However, the bench said that it had access to the reasons for not confirming the four additional judges of LHC. Additional Attorney General K K Agha appearing on behalf of the federation stated that the petitions filed under Article 184(3) was not maintainable as the matter was not of the public importance and even the PC’s decision of not confirming LHC and SHC judges names had not violated the fundamental rights. He said, “Do we want that the committee to become ‘rubber stamp’ ? ” Justice Tariq Pervaiz questioned whether it was appropriate for the public to know what reasons the 8-member Parliamentary Committee had given for not confirming the additional judges of LHC. He said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bar has passed a resolution condemning the PC for not confirming the judges’ names. Justice Jawwad asked the AAG if a person appeared before the court and said he had some reservations about the PC’s verdict then should the court entertain his petition or not? He said the petitions under Article 184(3) had not been filed by the affected judges, but the lawyers and the bar association.

K K Agha asked, “How could we gauge the public interest and how the judges’ appointment is related to the independent of judiciary?” He said when the judges were deposed the people came on the streets and reacted but it did not happen on 3rd November 2007, as the people did not march on the streets against the proclamation of emergency. Justice Shahid Siddiqui stated the committee was obliged to give reasons if it refused JC’s nominations. He questioned who would analyse the reasons whether people or court? The AAG replied though he had not yet seen the reasons but in his opinion if the reasons were justiciable then it could be discussed in the court. Justice Jawwad stated, “Can we ask any organisation to hold poll on the issue of not confirming judges, and if there is 51 per cent votes in favour or against then can it would show public interest.” The AAG stated in the case Jamaat-e-Islami vs federation in which the party had challenged the president’s move to contest elections twice. He said it was the public interest but did not violate the fundamental rights. There was the great public debate not in media, but issue was discussed on the streets. Makhdom Ali Khan touched the issue of maintainability. He said there was difference between public outcry and protest. He said that the court had to decide what is authority of the PC regarding the appointment of judges. The hearing was adjourned for Tuesday.

Am I a Muslim or a Momin?



What is a Momin? Any person who believed in the Unity of Allah and finality of Prophet  Muhammed's Prophet hood, who felt that the Quran was revealed to him just as it was revealed to Prophet s.a.w.. who fortified his will by imposing upon himself the discipline of Islam, and who realized in actuality the ideals of equality, solidarity and freedom by doing that which was permitted under the law of the Lord - was entitled as a Momin. Who he had surrendered himself completely and entirely to the Lord Allah, and therefore his will was the Will and his hand was the Hand of the true creator-Allah. He believed in himself and his Lord and therefore he conquered and was successful.

Within a couple of centuries after the advent of Islam when decadence had resulted from the tribal and racial jealousies of numerous people who came within the fold of Islam, and when Greek and Persians thought had started exerting its influence on the minds of the Muslims theologians and mystics and the conditions of exalted life were withdrawn from the idea of the personality of the Lord of Islam, and everything strong, brave, domineering, proud and dynamic was taken away. The living and creative Lord of Islam was transformed into a pantheistic God and was made to hold an absolute position in a fixed universe.  He was reduced merely to an Ideal, an Abstraction, a pure spirit, a Divine Principle.

The Muslim mystics of the later phases of Islamic history, contrary to the original teachings of Islam, renounced the world of matter as profane and devoted themselves entirely to spiritualism. The Muslim theologians of the period closed the Gates of Ijtihad (independent inquiry) and thus made the entire religious thought in Islam practically stationary. Consequently the True Momin made an exit from the scene leaving behind the abstract and unrealizable, exclusively moral and spiritual ideal of the perfect Man (Insan-e-Kamil) of the later mystics of Islam. This mystic ideal destroyed the original concept of Momin as a person concerned to act in the world.


The God of Islam and Momin are interdependent and complementary forces. If the idea of God is reduced to merely an Omnipotent Will which inculcates fatalism and encourages renunciation, then naturally the Momin - the strong, courageous and powerful man who loved purity, freedom, hardship and toughness and who lived dangerously would cease to be the ideal of humanity. In the Quran, the use of the terms Muslim and Momin also denotes a variation in the degree of the intensity in the love of Allah.

"Successful indeed are the believers (Muminun) who are humble in their prayers, and who shun vain conersation, and who are the payers of the Zakat and who guard their modesty.. who are shepherds of their pledge and their covenant and who pay heed to their prayers They are the heirs who will inherit Paradise."

Qualities of a Momin:

He is righteous.
He's sincere and God fearing.
He's modest, pure and a man of manners.
He's straightforward.
Affectionate towards his parents, children and orphans.
He abhors slander and backbiting.
He is courteous and cautious to small kindnesses.
He doesn't simply 'believe' but genuinely and sincerely 'submits' to Allah and His Prophet s.a.w. He's Allah's soldier and fights only for Allah's sake. He's a true warrior of Islam.

A Momin is the ideal represented by Islam for a Muslim human. Being a Muslim we should try to attain the highest degree of the ideal given by Islam. Let us all try to reach the best of ideals and become a good Muslim by adhering to the simple and beautiful injunctions of Islam so that we can be able to call our self a true Muslim and gradually entering into the circle of qualities of a Momin.

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