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zahid khattak · #5 Sunday, June 17, 2007

(1)LETTER TO CBR
I write this letter as an Officer of the Supreme Court of Pakistan; as an Advocate of the apex Court and the High Courts; as an Attorney who has paid more income tax from his earnings than many of my friends and colleagues, and as a patriot who has a stake in the dispensation of economic justice, intimately and vitally interested in the efficient functioning of Central Board of Revenue, Pakistan.
LETTER TO CJ
I write this letter as an Officer of the Supreme Court of Pakistan; as an Advocate enrolled in the apex Court since 1984 and in the High Courts since 1972; as an Attorney who has paid more income tax from his earnings in the legal profession than many of my friends, colleagues and seniors elevated to the Bench; and as a stake-holder in the dispensation of justice, intimately and vitally interested in the functioning of the Supreme Court.

(2)LEETER TO CBR.
I have seen Central Board of Revenue headed by Mueen-uddin Khan, Syed Mohsin Asad, Miyan Iqbal Fareed, Syed Riyaz Naqvi and Riyaz Malik and how the CBR functioned under them in the 1980s/1990s.
I was appalled at the manner in which the Central Board of Revenue remained under the reins of mismanagement and corruption. I was horrified by the move of former Chairman CBR, Riyaz Malik, who got extended the serving contract periods of all the CBR Members hired from the private sector, on the pretext of Tax Reforms. This was clearly designed to block your posting as the Chairman CBR by getting extended his own tenure in the name of Tax Reforms. The accelerated issue of the notification transferring and posting you as the Chairman CBR put Riyaz Malik’s move to rest.
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I have seen my Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Hamood-ur-Rahman, Chief Justice Muhammad Yaqub Ali, Chief Justice S. Anwar-ul-Haq, Chief Justice Mohammad Haleem and how the Court functioned under them in the 1970s/1980s.
I was appalled at the manner in which Chief Justice Irshad Hasan Khan led the Supreme Court and pained at the insinuations against Justice
Sheikh Riaz Ahmad, when he was the Chief Justice.
I was horrified by the establishment of a Bench of five judges constituted by Chief Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui to determine whether reduction in the retirement age for judges was constitutional or not. This was clearly designed to block your appointment. I was against the idea of Mr. Amirul Mulk Mengal being made the Chief Justice before you. Within the limits of my influence (which I readily admit to be very limited), I was totally for you to become the Chief Justice. Justice Javed Buttar is aware of my position, as is the Attorney General of Pakistan . The accelerated issue of the notification appointing you the Chief Justice put Justice Siddiqui's move to rest.
(3)LETTER TO CBR
I believed that you were vigorous, capable of lifting up the Central Board of Revenue, creating an espirit-de-corps among your officers, restoring the dignity and grandeur of the Central Board of Revenue, particularly considering the long tenure before you.
Alas this has not come about.
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believed that you were vigorous, capable of lifting up the Supreme Court, creating an espirit-de-corps among your brother judges, restoring the dignity and grandeur of the apex Court, particularly considering the long tenure before you.

Alas this has not come about.
(4)LETTER TO CBR
I am not perturbed by your strategy of single-outing yourself from the department you head through harsh and contemptuous attitude towards the staff and officers (despite my belief that it’s the mutual respect and morale boosting through providing a sense of belonging that would have improved the working of the CBR and raised its image in the eyes of everybody. Over reaction by blaming officers to be corrupt, superseding tens of officers on charges of corruption without any justification or even instancing a single case for the corruption and portraying yourself to be someone alien - on a different planet despite using all the benefits of that planet is just fluff, not the substance of an office).

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I am not perturbed by your insistence on protocol (despite my belief that the Chief Justice would rise in the eyes of everybody if he walked from his residence to the Supreme Court and hooters, police escort, flags is just fluff, not the substance of an office).

(5)LETTER TO CBR
Dear Sir, the dignity of officers is consistently being violated by you. They are treated harshly, rudely, brusquely and nastily. They are not heard. They are not allowed to present their case. There is little scope for difference of opinion. Mr Wahid Khursheed, an efficient Addition Collector was thrown out from the Central Board of Revenue when he expressed his personal opinion against your decision to post 22 Income Tax officers in the Customs/Sales Tax Wing. The words used in the department for Central Board of Revenue under your leadership are “The Mad House”, where no one knows who has to do what. There exists an Audit Wing, whose Member is drawing huge salary, whereas the audit is suspended since 2004. Then there is Customs Intelligence which is performing the job of Audit Wing. Sales Tax Wing does not know what is the dividing jurisdiction line between the Audit Wing, Intelligence Wing and Evaluation & Internal Audit Wing. Previously, you had handed over the Administration to HRM Wing, now again the Admn. Wing is separate. There is chaos everywhere. The officers are cowed down by aggression from the Board, led by you. All they receive from you is arrogance, aggression and belligerence. You also throw away the file, while contemptuously announcing: “This is rubbish”.
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My Lord, the dignity of lawyers is consistently being violated by you. We are treated harshly, rudely, brusquely and nastily. We are not heard. We are not allowed to present our case. There is little scope for advocacy. The words used in the Bar Room for Court No. 1 are "the slaughter house". We are cowed down by aggression from the Bench, led by you. All we receive from you is arrogance, aggression and belligerence. You also throw away the file, while contemptuously announcing: "This is dismissed".
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yet this aggression is not for everyone. When Mr. Imtiyaz Dev, an Additional Collector related to Chaudary Shujaat appears, your worthy demeanour and appearance is not just sugar and honey
LETTER TO CJ
Yet this aggression is not for everyone. When Mr. Sharifuddin Pirzada appears, your Lordship's demeanour and appearance is not just sugar and honey.

(7)LETTER TO CBR
I am not only raising the issue of verbal onslaughts and threats to officers, transfers on the basis of personal likes and dislikes and nepotism, demoralizing the officers by superseding them without any reason or justification, and reminding them time and again that “This is the new Central Board of Revenue”.
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I am not raising the issue of verbal onslaughts and threats to Police Officers and other Civil Servants, who have the misfortune to be summoned, degraded and reminded that "This is the Supreme Court".
(8)LETTER TO CBR
Sir, this communication may anger you and you are in any case prone to get angry in a flash, but do reflect upon it. Perhaps you are not cognizant of what your close collegues feel and say about you.
Dear Sir, before a final call arises from the upper echelons of state (as in the case of former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Mr Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry), before the field formations stand up collectively and before the entire matter is placed before the Chief Executive, there may be time to change and make amends.
I hope you have the wisdom and courage to make these amends and restore serenity, calm, compassion, patience and justice tempered with mercy to country’s Central Board of Revenue.
Dear Sir, we all live in the womb of time and are judged, both by the present and by history. The judgment about you, being rendered in the present, is adverse in the extreme.

LETTER TO CJ
My Lord, this communication may anger you and you are in any case prone to get angry in a flash, but do reflect upon it. Perhaps you are not cognizant of what your brother judges feel and say about you.

My Lord, before a rebellion arises among your brother judges (as in the case of Mr. Justice Sajjad Ali Shah), before the Bar stands up collectively and before the entire matter is placed before the Supreme Judicial Council, there may be time to change and make amends.

I hope you have the wisdom and courage to make these amends and restore serenity, calm, compassion, patience and justice tempered with mercy to my Supreme Court.

My Lord, we all live in the womb of time and are judged, both by the present and by history. The judgement about you, being rendered in the present, is adverse in the extreme.