Comitted to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 4 Num 68 Sun. August 03, 2003       Letters to Editor Late Barrister Sayed Ishtiaq Md. Abu Musa, Chittagong We remember late Barrister Sayed Istiaq Ahmed, the eminent lawyer and an outstanding personality. While his tenure as one of the advisors in the last caretaker government he made sincere effort to separate the judiciary from the executive branch, one of the most fundamental demands of the citizens, and the electoral commitment to both AL and BNP. Unfortunately our politicians did not respond to the issue in the right earnest, rather they have been rendering only lip service to it. Two years have gone by without any progress to the matter and the law and parliamentary affairs minister Barrister Maudud Ahmed is now saying that it will take 7­10 years to separate the judiciary. I wonder if the minister is taking us for a ride?