Prime Minister’s sends a cheque of Rs 100 to Senator Aitzaz Ahsan for his priceless services as his lawyer.

  Islamabad: April 30, 2012
 “At the end of the day, it is the people of Pakistan who judge the performance of their government and this right of the people, expressed through their elected representatives in the Parliament, cannot be taken away – should not be allowed to be taken away – from them”, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said in a letter addressed to Senator Aitzaz Ahsan alongwith a cheque of Rs 100 as fee for his priceless services as his lawyer.

The Prime Minister said that “in representing me, in fact Senator Aitzaz Ahsan were upholding and defending the principle of supremacy of the Constitution which was no small matter, especially in the face of adverse propaganda by some political entities, and relentless bias by a section of the media.”

The Prime Minister further said in the letter, “it is a tribute to your character and wisdom that you stood firm in your arguments, within the court room as well as outside.  Your services to the cause of constitutional rule will be remembered.”

The Prime Minister recalled, “we have been together in our struggle for democracy. We have been through adverse circumstances in pursuit of our principles.  Two of our great leaders laid down their lives in the struggle for democracy and I am sure that our sufferings will not go in vain.”

In his letter, the Prime Minister referred to the book of Ch Aitzaz Ahsan titled “Divided by Democracy” in which he wrote that in the political history of Pakistan not once has the judiciary “invalidated the incumbent regime of a military adventurer”, hoping that some day this will prove to be untrue.