NRO implementation: SC forms 5-judge bench to hear government’s review petition
A five-judge bench, headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, had ordered Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to write a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen cases against President Asif Ali Zardari without taking any advice.
The government had filed a review petition against the order asking the court to set it aside, which, it maintained, was not implementable.
According to Supreme Court’s Registrar Office, the five-member bench will hear the petition on August 15.
The bench will comprise of Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice Gulzar Ahmad and Justice Athar Saeed.
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Since his return to the court the Chief Justice has been consistently using judicial activism to expand the domain of authority of the Supreme Court. The major target of this stride is the PPP-led federal government and its officials. By now, what we are witnessing in Pakistan is an institutional clash between the federal executive and the superior judiciary (the Supreme Court and the provincial High Courts, especially the Punjab High Court). The Supreme Court is exercising some executive power by reprimanding, removing and transferring officials, and giving judgments on prices of some consumer goods. It removed Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani by disqualifying him as the member of the National Assembly. The power of disqualification of a member of parliament is traditionally exercised by the Election Commission of Pakistan not the chief justice of Pakistan. If this practice goes on democracy will never take root in Pakistan.
Under such high level of contradiction or incompetency the CJ and his allied judges should step down and if they are clean they should not fear clearance of allegations against them. Please have mercy on this nation and step down as no such controversial judges should work in such circumstances where a poor and homeless CJ's dependent son is multimillionaire and have full illegitimate immunity from this supreme court.
@ all commentators ,,no matter what a judge cannot break a political movements ,People have tried before with the helps of courts judges, Genrals mullas all to no avail. A judge who took oath under dictator to save his job and later rebelled again to save his job is no one to GRANT anything to anybody He himself is there courtesy of NRO otherwise he would still be in prison JUDGES WILL DO IN THE END WHAT PEOPLE WILL TELL THEM AND PEOPLE ARE THE ELECTED REPRESENTAIVES
@freeman: Any law or amendment passed by two third majority of National Assembly and Senate (good or bad) becomes a part of the constitution and dismantling by judiciary legally becomes a coup- d'etat by itself that is a treason. Our constitution is by itself highly contradictory and based on politics and raped over and over again. The whole fuss is that judiciary created an unlawful situation to extend their own power. Agree that PPP Government is corrupt, incompetent and have all the ills that all the others leaders and political parties also have but it is not judiciary's territory and intentionally or unintentionally they are harming Pakistan unparalleled to any other institution in the past or present.
@AnisAqeel: exactly. let them decide according to the constitution. what is, then, this whole fuss about? as far as the battle, i mentioned, is not the battle of guns.
Interestingly, PPP Government seeks permission of appex court for continuity of corruption and to legalise its past corrupt activities.
@freeman: Judges are not supposed to fight battles as you mentioned, they perform the duty of being unbiased deciding according to the constitution. Never known a supreme court where all the judges have same one opinion in a panel even up to seventeen justices, perfect like god.
Sir,when is the coup-de-grace?? Let the nation over come this sordid affair.
Supteme court is bating sixes wait till Zardari delivers a guggli and team chahdhry wll be out
Knowing the outcome of this appeal Government using delaying tactics and keeping SC busy with its ulterior motives.
So the appeal is against the judgement of a bench that was headed by the honourable judge Asif Saeed Khosa, It is interesting to note that the same judge is heading the bench hearing the appeal.
Anyhow, I am happy to see the names of the other four judges. Earlier I thought our Supreme Court consisted of only ... judges: Iftikhar Chaudhry, Khosa, Khilji, Shakirullah Jan, and Jilani. I wonder whether Justice Amir Hani Muslim is on leave?
Will get the same result. No chance of SC judges differing on earlier bench orders.