Mush Henchman Admits He’s Clueless

Musharraf’s ‘caretaker’ law minister is at pains to make sense of the de jure situation of the independent judges, behind whom the entire nation has rallied. They have neither been dismissed nor have they relinquished their offices, this Dawn report quotes him as saying. They have simply “ceased to hold their respective offices”.

This is an illegitimate official of an illegitimate regime speaking – the Supreme Court of Pakistan had ruled against the legitimacy of Musharraf’s PCO on day one - explicitly restraining all government functionaries from obeying his unconstitutional orders, and all judges from taking the PCO oath, which was effectively an oath of allegiance to Musharraf.

Why, then, did some judges go on to take the oath? This Wikipedia entry sheds some light on the conundrum:

“According to The Times, the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan who had pleged allegiance to General Pervez Musharaff have been caught in sexual acts with prostitutes. The article alleges that the photographs of the judges in sexual acts was used to blackmail the judges to take the oath of allegiance and make rulings that the military wants.^”

The Times article referenced by Wikipedia can be read here.