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Thursday, May 08, 2008

General Moeen's extension

General Moeen gets extension: time for the court to act

NM Harun

At the present ‘critical juncture of the nation’, the court under Chief Justice Ruhul Amin has two options: either a) uphold the rights of the people through judicial activism or b) uphold the Emergency Powers Rules and facilitate political engineering at the behest of the powers that be…Which way will the Supreme Court eventually go? Let us keep our fingers crossed
There is nothing unusual for a government servant to get extension of his job tenure. General Moeen U Ahmed has taken care to explain the ordinary nature of the recent extension of his tenure as army chief by one year. General Moeen loves to describe the media as the parliament in the absence of an elected parliament in the country now. He got the order extending his tenure on April 6. He convened the so-called media-parliament on April 8 at the Army Headquarters and, as it were, celebrated the good turn of his career by hosting a potato-dominated lunch with the attending editors and senior journalists. Popularising potato-eating as a complement to rice consumption is the latest campaign of the general. What a good sense of humour!......................

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