The Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, rejected government’s pleas for the review of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), a private TV channel reported on Friday.
The decision was given by the full bench of the apex court after the government failed to prepare any case for the review. A 17-member larger bench resumed hearing of the federation’s pending pleas seeking review of certain aspects of December 16, 2009 decision.
In today’s proceedings, the court asked Law Secretary Masood Chishti to read the complete text of letters exchanged between the government of Pakistan and Swiss authorities in 1997. The chief justice then reprimanded the secretary as he refused to read any further after the first letter. Later, the second letter was read by Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq on court’s directives.
On Thursday, the court allowed the federation to file additional documents with the review petition on the National Reconciliation Ordinance. Earlier, the court had declined to accept additional documents with the ruling that as per settled rules (of the apex court), additional documents could not be accepted at the review stage.
The court directed the Attorney General to ask former Law minister Dr Babar Awan to file additional documents from the federal government.
NRO review petition rejected
