It’s extremely preposterous to even think that the cunning President Zardari didn’t have an idea about the implications and the reactions of his decision to outrightly reject the recommendations of the supreme court’s top judge and make his own decision. He very well knew that Chief Justice (Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry would kowtow in front of him. If you look at it, this matter is not as big as some people are thinking it is. The government is itself blowing it out of proportions. Actually they want something else. They want a safe and promising exit. If they go out silently, then rest assured most of them go straight to jail or in exile or out of politics forever. They want some fight, some clash and some dirt flowing hither and thither. They cannot fight with the establishment, and they cannot fight with the popular PML-N. Their only soft target is the judiciary, because the lawyer leaders are divided. They want judiciary to take some action against them, so that they go out and yell that once again they have become the victim of judges. They would correlate their ouster to the hanging of Zulfikar Bhutto and the way their slain leader Benazir Bhutto termed the then courts as Kangaroo courts.

It’s wrong to say that the Justice Saqib Nisar, by not taking oath as the chief justice of the Lahore High Court, has foiled a conspiracy allegedly prepared by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani against the judiciary. Actually, the justices have done what was natural, and what was sought by the legal advisors of the ruling duo.

But now free media and aware people willl not shed a single tear for Zardari regime. They have lost their chance and they are asking for it. They have not failed to find yet another Dogar in the present supreme court, they have also lost whatever credibility they had. Now even Sindh card would not help them.