Tribune take: Government forcing the Supreme Court's hand
Prime Minister Gilani has also offered to step down in the wake of the worsening political situation in the country.
Faisal Shakeel, The Express Tribune's reporter in Islamabad, says the government left the court little choice by not taking one of the six options laid out last week, thus forcing them to hold Gilani in contempt.
Shakeel says that there is a fair chance that the court will convict Gilani and hold him in contempt for not implementing the NRO verdict. Once convicted, the prime minister has to resign because a conviction bars a person from parliament, and without being a parliamentarian, Gilani cannot be prime minister.
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Will Gilani be only told to quit his role as Prime Minister/parliamentarian or will he also be accused of certain charges...
Why must the entire country suffer for the sins of these two individuals, Zardari and Gillani?
Democracy is not going to end because two individuals from the PPP are disqualified. Does the PPP as a political party have no one else to run the government?
Elect someone else as PM and President and finish of your term, and let these two battle out their cases in the courts. It is time for our political parties to start being institutions and stop functioning like the dynastic personal fiefdoms Zardaris, Bhuttos, Sharif's, Chaudhries ...
supreme court ,can any judge in the land stand up and say he is not or has not been corrupt no body in Pakistan believes so because at every stage they have to pay bribes
Does anyone feel that PPP is trying to force the hands of the other institutions, so that when this Govt. is forced out of the office they can claim to the victims to get the sympathy votes in the next election?
@Shahid Kinnare: You are so right. Everything that any institution on earth is doing is a CONSPIRACY against the most honest and competent government to date?
One of the 6 options requires the SC to be patient and do nothing. What is stopping the SC from exercising this option.
so at the end of the day it is again civilian who would be made to sacrifice and establishment would have their last laugh and of course media would enjoy the day.