The petitions, including those filed by Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), challenged the speaker’s ruling and demanded prime minister’s disqualification after he was convicted of contempt by the apex court.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, hearing the petitions, observed that the judgement in the contempt case is now a conceded judgement as the prime minister did not file any written or verbal appeal against the verdict even after the lapse of 30 days.
The bench further expressed surprise over how the prime minister could himself stay stigmatised, while the ruling government brought about the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case to the court even after its execution in efforts to remove stigma from his name.
Advocate AK Dogar told the court that the speaker National Assembly violated the orders as Article 63(2)(g) of the Constitution, after the passage of 18th Amendment, clearly mentions that a member is disqualified after being convicted.
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@Aftab Kenneth Wilson: Is that the best you can come up with? You mean the same parliament which is headed by a CONVICTED PM whose advice to his people is to get out of the country if your unhappy. This supposed democracy is a joke. Real democracy will be brought about by people power through Imran Khan in the next free and fair elections. Vote for him to save Pakistan from this corrupt mafia
another act of staged drama without result - pml n/ ppp 'noora kushtai - now joined by 'pti'.
Hope this corrupt government (PPP & PMLN) fall as soon as possible. Vote for Imran Khan to save the country from this elite mafia who think they are above the law
I love it when SC takes on these corrupt mafias, who are doing Loot khasoot in the name of "Democracy"... !!! Jiye Cj... Jiye IK.. :)
Wont it be better for the supreme court to disqualify all the assemblies and all the govt. organs and take on the govt. ...this will save so much of our time.....by the way where is the Memogate and Mansoor Ijaz.....they should be tried along with the Tv anchors who wasted such precious time of the whole nation.......
the SC should now disqualify the speaker as well... wrong usage of power!
Seriously, if those in power do not obey and follow the orders of Supreme Court, then what message is being sent to ordinary citizen. Supreme Court needs to take very strong action according to law.