No institution alone can form a good government: Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry says all institutions should work within their constitutionally defined parameters.
ISLAMABAD:
No institution can alone form a good government, said Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday.
Addressing a full court session, the chief justice said the apex court is a constitutional institution and that all institutions should work within their constitutionally defined parameters.
Chaudhry further said that the Supreme Court is tasked with a very important job.
Recently, the country witnessed a veiled war of words between the chief justice and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
Following the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Asghar Khan case and a resulting chorus of allegations and a torrent of charges, ranging from financial corruption to constitutional excesses against former military generals, the army chief came to his institution’s defence.
“Weakening of institutions and trying to assume more than one’s due role will set the country back,” Kayani had said.
“No individual or institution has the monopoly to decide what is right or wrong in defining the ultimate national interest,” he added.
No institution can alone form a good government, said Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday.
Addressing a full court session, the chief justice said the apex court is a constitutional institution and that all institutions should work within their constitutionally defined parameters.
Chaudhry further said that the Supreme Court is tasked with a very important job.
Recently, the country witnessed a veiled war of words between the chief justice and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
Following the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Asghar Khan case and a resulting chorus of allegations and a torrent of charges, ranging from financial corruption to constitutional excesses against former military generals, the army chief came to his institution’s defence.
“Weakening of institutions and trying to assume more than one’s due role will set the country back,” Kayani had said.
“No individual or institution has the monopoly to decide what is right or wrong in defining the ultimate national interest,” he added.