Fawad opposes lifetime disqualification of lawmakers

Says efforts are being made to end cases against Nawaz

ISLAMABAD:

Senior PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday opposed the lifetime disqualification of lawmakers under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution, saying the next assembly should make amendment in this law but noted that the modification should not be done specifically to benefit any one individual.

Addressing the media in the federal capital, the PTI leader maintained that amendments should be made in all related judicial matters including the procedure for the formation of benches.

“Our judiciary is the only judiciary in the world that appoints and removes judges itself,” he said, stressing that judicial reforms were mandatory.

He also called for reforming the chief justice’s suo motu and fixing of cases authority.

Fawad said he had raised the issue of justice system before the Supreme Court, adding that the justice system in the country was being run “administratively”.

He lamented that the process of accountability in the country had “completely ended”.

He said the way PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz was acquitted in the Avenfield reference and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar returned to the country showed that “our justice system has failed”.

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Regretting amendment in the National Accountability Ordinance 2000 where NAB would not take corruption cases of less than Rs500 million, Fawad observed that the “accused” were formulating laws for themselves.

“(PML-N supremo) Nawaz’s children have looted billions of rupees from this country. Now such a law has been devised that the NAB will have to prove corruption by all means,” he said, adding that “nothing will be asked from the one who will commit corruption”.

“Efforts are being made to end the cases against Nawaz,” he said.

Fawad noted that matters would have been better if the Supreme Court had taken notice of such a situation.

He opposed the lifetime disqualification of lawmakers under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution and suggested that the next assembly should make amendment in this law.

“The amendment should not be done specifically to benefit any one individual.”