Justice (retired) Tariq Mehmood, a well-known lawyer of the Supreme Court, though opines that there is more to the resurfacing of the petition than what meets the eye.

Askari Sahib paid compliments to Aali more for his dohas than his ghazals. He says: "Aali has revived the form of doha in quite a new way. Here we see lively emotions expressed freely more than what we had seen in his ghazals."