The PML-N on Monday distributed a 17-point whitepaper among its legislators against the government, detailing violations of the Supreme Court orders.
The document, handed over to the party’s lawmakers during the parliamentary party meeting, says after the Supreme Court’s detailed judgment in the NRO case (dated 16th December, 2009), the government refused to appoint Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday as an ad-hoc judge of the apex court despite the apex court’s orders.
The second violation, according to the PML-N, was rejection of the chief justice directive to appointment of Justice Khawaja Sharif as the Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice. It pointed out that the government appointed Justice Khawaja Mohammad Sharif as a judge of the Supreme Court and made SC Judge Mian Mohammad Nisar as acting chief justice of the LHC which was later declared null and void by a three-member bench of the Supreme Court.
The whitepaper said on 2nd April, Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan resigned and alleged that Law Minister Babar Awan had stopped him from writing letter to the Swiss officials.
In May, 2010 the new attorney general submitted before the Supreme Court that the issue of Swiss cases was over and there was no need to write a letter and waste time on money laundering. During this period, the government made widespread changes in NAB and Javed Zia Qazi was made acting chairman of NAB and Irfan Qadir as prosecutor general.
The Supreme Court time and again asked the government to write a letter to Swiss officials about $60 million corruption in which, according to the PML-N, the president was main accused but the government did not implement it despite the passage of 19 months.
