PM’s disqualification: SC refuses to entertain PTI review plea

According to petition, the prime minister had asked army chief General Raheel Sharif to act as a ‘mediator’

ISLAMABAD:

The Supreme Court’s institution branch has refused to entertain Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s review plea against its September 12, 2014 verdict in the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification case.

PTI’s core committee member Ishaq Khan Khakwani on Thursday filed a review petition in the apex court against dismissal of his plea seeking disqualification of the incumbent premier.

According to the petition, the prime minister had asked army chief General Raheel Sharif to act as a ‘mediator’ between the government and protesting parties – the PTI and the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) – in August last year and serve as a ‘guarantor’ to any agreement with the parties, but alleged that the premier had later lied in front of Parliament and denied making any such request, and should therefore be disqualified in view of Article 63 of the Constitution.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 10^th, 2015.