Rabbani decries ‘judicial ingress’ in assembly proceedings

PPP leader asks political parties to ‘take blinders off their eyes’


Our Correspondent July 02, 2022
Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani. PHOTO: AFP

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ISLAMABAD:

Former Senate chairman and senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Raza Rabbani took strong exception on Friday to “the superior judiciary, as interference in the internal proceedings” of parliament and provincial assemblies.

In a statement, Rabbani said that the country’s ruling elite had rendered parliament redundant and reduced the provincial assemblies to mere rubber stamps. He warned that the space lost by the political parties might not be recovered in a long time.

“Today parliament and the provincial assemblies have all but surrendered their independence envisaged in the Constitution, as the superior judiciary issues directions on the internal proceedings of the houses, there is no one to blame but myself,” Rabbani said.

“Pakistan’s ruling elite had already made parliament redundant and the provincial assemblies rubber stamps. Parliament is being suffocated by the executive and the ruling elite. This space lost by the political parties may not be recovered in at least our life time,” he added.

“The manner in which civilian office-holders … wilfully violated the Constitution, has brought us to a stage where the internal proceedings of the House are being run on the dotted line provided by the courts.”

The former Senate chairman said that “judicial ingress” in the internal proceedings and the doctrine of “reading in” were also not helping. He urged the political parties to take the “blinders off their eyes before even the ashes are blown by the wind”.

He said: “Parliament and the provincial assemblies are crying out to the real sovereign, the people, let me breathe.”

COMMENTS (4)

Parvez ali | 2 years ago | Reply Judicial Ingress Parliament of late is indeed dead as a door nail. Politicians are taking every small matter to the Court and the courts eagerly come forward to accept and offer ingress on high priority. This concern ought to be discussed threadbare in the Joint Session of the Parliament to arrive at a consensus which should ask the Courts to desist from such ingress. Supreme Court with a split 3-2 decision recently even arrogated itself to amend the constitution in a reference filed by the President and the Parliament did not even care to record a dissent This ingress is now routine. Regards Parvez ali
Naeem Khan Kansas US | 2 years ago | Reply some one should ask Mr.Rabbani if taking over an elected government by conspiring with US is Constitutional. Moreover we never heard a squeak from him when the Supreme Court went into session midnight to topple over an elected government in cahoots with the Army. He is pathetic and a liar.
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