Soon after the Judicial Commission absolved the government of rigging the last general elections, PTI Chief Imran Khan surrounded himself with a new team of legal experts, Babar Awan and Irfan Qadir. Babar Awan, PhD from Monticello leads the team. PTI has its own men of law, such as Hamid Khan, but somehow Imran Khan does not trust them as much as he trusts lawyers from outside his party. Babar Awan will advise Imran in his own way and so will Irfan Qadir. Qadir, as Attorney General in the past, instead of assisting the judiciary for which he was paid, usually sided with the opposite party in the court. How I wish Aitzaz Ahsan was also one of the team members. Although Aitzaz Ahsan won’t like to be compared with Babar Awan, but Awan is shrewder of the two. The only time he misfired was when he made some wrong moves during PPP’s rule and quickly fell from grace. Let’s see how Imran Khan wins his lost battle against the government with the assistance of Babar Awan and Irfan Qadir.
DR A P SANGDIL
Oslo, Norway
