Govt looking to pack up judiciary, says Nawaz

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday the government was aspiring to pack up the Supreme Court by imposing the wishes of an individual on the people of country but his party would not allow the government to destroy the judiciary, which had the backing of the entire nation.
Nawaz was talking to reporters at a local hotel with PML-N’s newly-elected Balochistan President Sardar Sanaullah Zehri and General Secretary Naseebullah Bazai.
To a question about remarks by President Asif Ali Zardari that the government would accept the decision of parliamentary committee on the memo issue, the PML-N leader said if Asif Ali Zardari had said that, he had expressed intent to pack up the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
He said it was unfortunate that the attitude of the PPP leadership about SC was not positive, but it was clear that the SC would not make judgments on wishes and pressure of anyone.
He said there was no need of forming the parliamentary committee on memo issue when the SC had already formed a commission that had started working on the issue. He questioned why parliamentary committees were not formed on issues like the Abbottabad raid, PNS Mehran attack and assassination of journalists, including Saleem Shezad and Wali Babar. He said his party would soon host a national conference on Balochistan to determine its problems and their solution and promised to bring the killers of Nawab Akbar Bugti to justice if he came into power.
Nawaz said although convening the national conference on Balochistan was the responsibility of the govern ment, it had failed and PML-N would do that to hammer out a workable and durable solution to Balochistan’s issues.
He said nationalists of Balochistan were with us and “we are with them”.
To another query regarding the PM’s remarks about a state within the state, Nawaz offered his party’s support to Gilani to stop the practice if such a thing existed. He said the PM should speak clearly and tell the reality to the opposition.
He dispelled the impression that there were differences in the rank and file of the party’s provincial set up, saying the council session of party was held properly that elected the party’s office bearers. Addressing party workers who were gathered in the lobby of the hotel earlier, Nawaz said he would soon invite the presidents and general secretaries of all districts of Balochistan to Raiwind and would hold a detailed discussion with them over party affairs.