ISLAMABAD, May 9: Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro had a chance meeting with Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on PIA’s flight PK-386 from Lahore on Sunday but what followed on their landing in Islamabad could only have been by design.

Dawn has learnt on good authority that after disembarking at Islamabad airport at around 3:15pm, the two sat together in a car that took them from the tarmac to the Rawal Lounge of the airport where they had more talks.

When they finished their tet-a-tet or serious talks after Over one hour, Chief Justice Chaudhry headed for his official residence in Islamabad but the Senate chairman took to the air again at 5pm, the flight PK-387 back to Lahore.

Interestingly, the Senate chairman travelled both ways without any baggage.

A member of the Senate chairman’s staff, however, dismissed the event as "a coincidence".

“They had no talks,” the official said vehemently when Dawn asked him about the meeting between the two VIPs.

“After doing his job in Islamabad the Senate chairman left for Lahore the same evening,” he said, without specifying the job.

The question arises if politics is being given a chance in resolving the judicial crisis.