A petition challenging the eligibility of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, his party colleague Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rasheed as members of parliament was filed in the Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry on Wednesday.
The petition, moved by the Watan Party through its leader Barrister Zafarullah Khan, argued that the three leaders had deviated from the Constitution and violated the oath they took before becoming members of the National Assembly. It claimed the leaders, through their actions, had refused to obey the Constitution.
The Watan Party urged the court to permanently disqualify the respondents as members of parliament.
The petition also moved the court against Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri, accusing him and his supporters, along with PTI activists, of sedition. It stated that workers of PAT and PTI had broken into the headquarters of PTV, ransacking the place and harassing employees of the state run TV channel.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 4th, 2014.
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Despite his ardent vows in front of the masses that their presence in the Red zone would not cause any damage not even to a flower pot, Tahirul Qadri consciously and deliberately first inspired and then led his mob to attack the state buildings. As a result the damage was done to the building representing our national television. Opprobrium poured in from the civil society of Pakistan while the world at large stood witnessed and stunned. This tribal politics should be done away with immediately by arresting the culprit Canadian cleric and bringing him to the book. With the help of the Honorable Supreme court of Pakistan the civil society should arrange a humble walk in Islamabad to highlight the utmost value and importance of the state institutions in order to restore their bruised sanctity and prestige.