Over the last two years, Imran Khan has had a couple of hundred cases slapped on him. Their purpose was to break him. But the “Iddat” case was distinct in nature. The purpose of this was to humiliate and ridicule him for the pleasure of the pimps and thugs who are currently employed in the ruination of Pakistan. Chief among these seekers of sly pleasure were Maryam Safdar, Qazi Isa, and Asim Munir for the simple reason that none of the others could match them for their malice.
Because the “Iddat” case was not only found to be acceptable to be tried in our courts, but the spectacle was prolonged as much as possible for the fun of those enjoying it, the courts should now expect their doors to be knocked to agitate any number of scurrilous and mischievous issues to besmirch or ridicule others…..cases regarding weddings, consorts, and their products. Three such issues in the minds of many may be expected to reach the courts citing the Iddat case as a cognate precedence. These have to do with Bilawal Bhutto, Maryam Safdar, and Qazi Isa himself.
Bilawal is the top runner as a prime minister-in-waiting. He has a unique pedigree. He is the only one among the competitors, both of whose parents were thieves. They began as partners in theft, but as mutual trust broke down, both opened their separate shops and so had the experience of working as members of a team, as well as individual players. This gives a very strong C.V. to Bilawal and boosts his claim to be elevated as the chief of the gravy train.
However, the issue is not one of his rightful ownership of this position, it is one of gender. Each of his parents was well-defined in this matter and filled slots which the constitution allowed them to fill. But there is a strong suspicion that Bilawal belongs to the “intermediate” gender, which he hides in his ample shalwar kameez. It is therefore eminently possible that a citizen may ask Qazi Isa, our pre-eminent constitutional expert [as well as its most committed subverter], to rule on whether our constitution allows one from the intermediate gender, to occupy the slot of the country’s thief-in-chief.
Maryam’s problem is different. This has to do with the date of her marriage, which in turn begins with when she first set eyes on young Captain Safdar. He must either have been frightfully good looking, or it must have been a case of Maryam not having known any better, though he was the same oaf then as he is today. At all events, it is believed that she was drawn violently into the captain’s fatal field of attraction. By the time she disentangled herself and re-emerged into the world of sanity, she did so in a state of conception which needed either to be denied outright or accepted but claimed as being immaculate. Since neither was possible, holy matrimony was the result.
Then the kid came out…. a trifle early, the family admitted, but then it was the sort of kid that did everything early. Those ill-disposed to the Sharifs said that the emergence of the kid was not early, but without the use of an incubator, a miracle.
Qazi Isa’s nose for detail may therefore be invoked to determine the age of the kid not because it is a constitutional matter, but because Maryam Safdar has been given to drawing so much sadistic pleasure from the misery of others, that hundreds would like to see her squirm and blush in turn.
And then there is the case in which Qazi Isa should be the sole expert. He may be needed to inform the people about the relationship between Zarina Montisaro Cararo Khoso, himself, and Sarina Isa. There are rumours that he is known to have cohabited with one, and consorted with the other; that he is with one when he is here, and with the other when he is in London.
He must also clarify which of the two owns three flats in London but has consistently refused to give the money trail to justify her legal and kosher ownership of these, and has got clean away with this only because of her connection with the Chief Justice.
The Qazi must also inform the people if he is married to one or to both of these women. He once turned down a request of a judge [or a counsel?] in Court to remove his Covid mask in order that he be clearly heard* because, he said, that the only person in the world he could not disobey was his wife, and that it was she who had asked him to keep his mask on. It is about time we knew which of the two women he was referring to. We would also like to know which of these women harbours a special dislike for Imran Khan as is attested to by her written submissions to the Supreme Judicial Council, which are on record.
Most importantly, the Qazi needs to clarify if the woman he cannot refuse is the SAME person as the one who cannot abide Imran Khan and if this was the reason why he has consistently ruled against the interests of Khan. His brother Justices on the Supreme Court must scrutinize this issue to determine if the Qazi was at all qualified to be a part of the Court itself, much less to sit on a specific bench. Indeed, if they conclude that the woman who dislikes Khan with rare ardour was the same one whom the Qazi finds it impossible to refuse, his would be a fit case to be dishonourably dismissed from his station as a judge, for having appointed himself on benches which he should not have been a part of.
p.s. It is hoped that when the detailed judgement in the reserved seats case is written, it will also close loopholes and block out many avenues of mischief which the Qazi could be expected to take during the few weeks he has left in office.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reQoaEr6X1w [hear this clip at minute 13:03 onwards].