Judiciary diverting attention from terrorism: Haqqani

In an article in the New York Times Hussain Haqqani has said that media and judiciary have helped redirect the attention away from the threat of terrorism by constantly targeting the ruling party.He wrote that a Supreme Court justice cited poetry instead of law while sentencing the elected leader on questionable charges, adding it reflected that Pakistan was not ready to accept its real national priorities at a time when the country is threatened by religious extremism and terrorism.Instead of raising questions as to how Bin Laden managed to live in Pakistan for years, the Pakistani Supreme Court chose to punish Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani by charging him with contempt, Haqqani wrote in the article.He said Pakistan’s returned to democracy after the elections of 2008 and this offered some hope to country but the elected government has since been hobbled by political infighting and judicial activism on every issue, except extremism and terrorism.