PM's disqualification case: PTI to file review plea

PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain will also challenge the court’s November 6 judgement

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will file a review petition against the Supreme Court’s November 6 order to take up the Prime Minister Minster Nawaz Sharif's disqualification case on Monday in the apex court’s Quetta registry, PTI leader Ishaq Khakwani’s counsel Irfan Qadir told The Express Tribune.

The PTI has already owned Khakwani’s plea before the apex court.

Qadir said although they could not get the court’s November 6 order but they have decided to challenge the review petition on Monday, adding that the review plea had already been drafted.

The counsel also revealed that another petitioner, Pakistan Muslim League–Quaid chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain will also challenge the court’s November 6 judgement.

Meanwhile, The Express Tribune has learnt that while Irfan Qadir has refused to appear before the apex court at Quetta registry, Attorney General for Pakistan Salman Aslam Butt as well as another petitioner, i.e. Gohar Nawaz Sindhu have left for Quetta to attend the Monday’s court proceeding.

All three petitioners claim the premier had first asked army chief General Raheel Sharif to act as a ‘mediator’ between the government and protesting parties – PTI and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) – and to serve as a ‘guarantor’ to any agreement with the parties.

They alleged that the premier had later lied in front of Parliament and denied making any such request to the army chief and should therefore be disqualified.