Supreme Court on Thursday said Interior Minister Rehman Malik should lose his senate seat for making a false statement in election papers.
It is the second time in three months the court has ruled against Malik, a senior member of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) seen by many as Zardari’s right-hand man, and the latest round in a long-running tussle between the government and the judiciary.
Some government members have accused judges of overreaching their authority and trying to bring down the coalition before it becomes the first elected administration in Pakistan’s history to complete a full five-year term.
The court also disqualified four MPs — two from the PPP — and seven provincial assembly members on Thursday for holding dual nationality. The constitution bars elected politicians from holding citizenship of any country other than Pakistan.
Malik was forced to step down from parliament in June after the Supreme Court suspended him for running for office while still a British national.
He then won his seat back in a by-election after producing a letter from the British government acknowledging that he had renounced his British nationality.
But the court said Thursday Malik was not fit to hold office because he had made a false statement in nomination papers in 2008 when he said there was nothing to bar him from office, as there was no proof he had surrendered British nationality before May 2012.
“Mr A Rehman Malik, in view of the false declaration filed by him at the time of contesting the election to the Senate held in the year 2008… cannot be considered sagacious, righteous (and) honest,” Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said in the ruling.
Chaudhry referred the matter to the chairman of the senate, who will decide whether to unseat Malik, and ordered the Election Commission to begin legal proceedings against him over the false declaration.
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should lose his head.. chop it off
not only loose the seat but punish as he submit the fake documents to the s/c if this was done by poor man he may be punished but y not for him
He should get a haircut before anything else.
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iftikhar overreaching himself again
How could Pakistan have appointed such a man as Chief Justice?
A lesson to be learnt from Franklin Roosevelt
please elaborate your thoughts on "Overreaching". should the law be segregated for poor, rich and PPP (or the ruling party).
He should get a haircut before anything else.
good
Very Excellent …
Inshallah
should lose his head.. chop it off
not only loose the seat but punish as he submit the fake documents to the s/c if this was done by poor man he may be punished but y not for him
He should get a haircut before anything else.
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