Dear Ms. Nasim Zehra,

I was completely taken aback by your views on Supreme Court’s action (which according to many of you was “over reaction”) on the news of Government’s “rumoured” plan to revoke the so-called “executive order” of restoration of Judiciary, you expressed in some of news items of your TV channel, and also in your own programme later in that day. Your stand on this issue on that particular day reeks of your altruistic approach to a so-called democratic setup ignoring all the ins of outs of pertaining to the Government’s stand vis-à-vis Judiciary, now-a-days.

Your particular remark to the effect that, “there should be some public pressure on the judiciary” was highly inane and unbecoming of a current/political affairs commentator like you. I don’t need to explain here what “public pressure” means with regards to Judiciary, and what does that mean when it is said with regards to the government or the party-in-the-government.

Coming back to the main issue, I was deeply pained to note that, you completely missed following points while commenting yourself on the Judiciary’s action, and while you were conducting your programme later in that day:

1)      The news came from the source which, any how, has a standing in the investigative journalism, notwithstanding your own professional jealousy against them, and has good record of reliability, and is not itself yellow journalism.

2)      The present government, particularly our redoubtable clownish Prime Minister of this unfortunate country, has not any un-enviable history of not somersaulting on any and every plausible national issue. It is not unknown for him to eat his own words, and putting his boots in his own mouth

3)      The subsequent event – the clownish prime minister going missing when the 17 bench Court was waiting for his written confirmation that, he or his boss’s government has no nefarious design to send the judiciary packing again – was a event big enough to prove the veracity of Judiciary’s apprehension.

4)      You said, the Supreme Court sharply and unnecessarily reacted to some “rumour”, thus jeopardizing the setup. But what would have happened, if the SC had not preempted, and the Government had sent the judges home, true to its nature of breaking its own words and taking somersaults? You would have found an issue to make much bigger hue and cry. Is not it?

At the end, my suggestion, Ms. Zehra, to you is that, please avoid talking and commenting on Constitutional and Judicial matters. You have no knowledge of Constitutional issues. You should limit yourself to political issues only.

Thanking you,

Syed Sayef Hussain