As the treasury and its covert allies in the opposition benches seem reluctant in debating the non-implementation of Supreme Court orders by the executive, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) senators have submitted an adjournment motion in the upper house of the parliament against the ‘government’s hide and seek with judiciary’.
JI Senators including Professor Khurshid Ahmad, Professor Ibrahim Khan and Afia Zia submitted the motion which would lead to a debate on the NICL scam, which involves Moonis Elahi. The motion said that so far the government had failed to implement at least sixteen orders of the Supreme Court. It further said the tone and tenor the government had adopted viz-a-viz judiciary was extremely dangerous. The motion expressed concern over the government’s attitude of confrontation with judiciary.
The JI move, soon after the government ‘managed’ an earlier attempt to initiate debate on the issue in the house, is reflective of the mood of opposition parties. In the other adjournment motion, the JI senators have raised the issue of burning copies of newspapers in interior Sindh and termed it an attack on freedom of expression.
It is to mention here that the government, with the support of two opposition parties in the parliament, JUI-F and MQM had succeeded to some extent in blocking the debate on the non-implementation on SC orders by the executive during the requisitioned sessions of both houses of the parliament.
