Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has hinted at putting in place a new judiciary, saying parliament was the supreme body and could do that.
Talking to reporters on Wednesday, the minister said Pakistan People’s Party was ready to create a new judiciary as it was enshrined in the charter of democracy (CoD) between Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif. He said Nawaz was backing off from his commitment which he made in CoD. Kaira said parliament had created the constitution and it had the power to create a new one.
He alleged that the courts in Islamabad and Lahore always took up cases against the PPP, but did not take up cases against the Sharif brothers. Kaira said President Asif Ali Zardari was not the chairman of the PPP, instead he was made co-chairperson in the given certain circumstances. The minister said Raja Pervez Ashraf was a choice of Benazir Bhutto, adding that the prime minister was not responsible for power crisis in the country. He claimed that it was bureaucracy, which provided Ahsraf with wrong facts and figures while he was at the helm of affairs at the Ministry of Water and Power. He said the PPP put in place a common worker as prime minister while Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif could not dare to appoint their workers as prime minister.
Kaira hints at a ‘new judiciary’
