National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bokhari on Tuesday submitted his reply in the Supreme Court after removing objections raised by the registrar of the apex court.
The letter was submitted by the NAB Chairman’s solicitor Naveed Rasool Mirza. Bokhari stated in the reply that he believes in the supremacy of the judiciary and he cannot even think about committing contempt of court. He mentioned his sacrifices for the cause of an independent judiciary and said that he raised his voice against Musharraf’s actions against the superior judges. He further said that he refused to obey the illegal order of the then Chief of Army Staff for a military takeover. Bokhari further told the court that his letter written to President Asif Ali Zardari was a secret communiqué and he didn’t know how it was made public.
The chief justice replied that how it was possible that a secret letter could be revealed, adding that what would have happen if the people would came to know about the content of the letter?
Replying to CJP’s remark that the letter was issued to media entities by the NAB, Bokhari said that he had to issue the letter as the contents were broadcasted on the television screens and if he would not have had issued the letter then media could have had broadcasted false details.
Statement of Chairman NAB is self contradictory. On one hand he says he respects judiciary and in second breath he says the letter was secret written to President complaining against judiciary. He is not the only one who came out for the judiciary cause, the entire nation was out. He refused to army chief for military take over.Traditionally neither Naval Chief nor PAF chief is taken in to confidence.Military take over is not discussed so openly
Agreed Mr. Mukhtar. Coming out for judiciary does not mean that he has to be consulted for the court decisions or he is now free to flout court orders. But he has to pay back Zardari somehow for 10 crore worth of plot also !!
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