The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) was moved on Monday to oust Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif, his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif and party activist Khawaja Saad Rafiq from the forthcoming general election.
The trio was accused of staging an organised attack on the apex court in November 1997. Consequently a stay order was sought against polling in all the four constituencies in Lahore where they were contesting candidates.
Petitioner Shahid Orakzai, who had managed to re-open the attack case in
1999 while the Sharifs were still controlling the federation and Punjab,
told the court that the tribunal and the ECP were unable to
check Sharifs’ entry into parliament unless the Supreme Court made the
inquiry report public.
No less than six legislators of PML-N including National Hockey Coach Akhtar Rasool and TV Host Tariq Aziz were sentenced for contempt of court primarily because of their presence on the scene.
They are still barred to take part in election. However, the case against
Sharifs and others was “deferred” until the police conducted a thorough
probe into the incident. In view of the polls, the latest petitions
emphasizes quick action.
The Court was formally asked to issue a certified copy the police inquiry
report about the attack. The document has been intriguingly kept secret
since 2001 and its release was sought under the new Fundamental Right of
‘Access to Information’ inserted in the Constitution by the 18th Amendment.
The Sharifs were in exile when the Capital Police assembled the basic facts
about their involvement including evidence about a lunch prepared for the
attackers at Islamabad’s Punjab House.
The petition against Sharifs comes at a time when national attention was
focused on court proceedings against former President Pervez Musharraf who
is presently detained in his farm house while Sharifs are riding the tide.
If made public, the inquiry report may turn the tide.
The petition said the inquiry report was to be placed before a bench of the
Supreme Court currently hearing an election case instituted against Shahbaz
Sharif in 2002. The petition raised the question whether information in a
document on the record of the Supreme Court was valid for the purpose of
scrutiny of nominations. The court was informed that two election appeals
against the Sharif Brothers had been rejected by the Appellate Tribunal in
Lahore for non-verification of the information in the Inquiry Report.
If someone trying to move SC to deliver a fair and an unbiased ruling in case involving Pak Army, Sharif brothers or any other right wing elements, he must be barking at wrong a tree.
Move SC to ban Imran because he does qualify on 62/63. DNA test of Tirian should be done to establish justice.
"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"
Ali my brother think. No need to get emotional. The supreme court is moved against Sharifs. Sharifs corruption directly affects you and other people of Pakistanis. Imran Khan involvement in Sita White case is purely his personal problem for which he will answer to his God and not to you. Secondly his child affects nobody's life in Pakistan. When are you guys going to wake up and see the light. They say first time is a mistake but second time is a choice. You people have made several mistakes electing PPP and PML-N and what have these guys given you. Load shedding, corruption, more people killed than countries like Afghanistan and Iraq who are practically in a state of war, Hospitals where basic facilities are not available. When you bring your relatives to hospital, the first thing you get is a list of medicine you must run and buy.What about those who can't afford. Education system which is ruined because people like Shiekh Waqas who were your education ministers. Nothing is invested educating people so they can ask questions and their rights. We have only given rise to a slave nation at the hand of your own people. Bribery is common in "The Islamic Republic of Pakistan".In 1999 us overseas pakistanis sent millions of dollars in "Qarz chukao, Mulk Bachao" Ask Sharif brothers and they will never tell you what happened to those dollars.
My brother wake up. What PPP and PML-N have done affect you directly.. Have you ever heard a bomb blast because IK has an unwanted child, a hospital doesn't have medicine because IK has an unwanted child, load shedding because IK has an unwanted child, industry moving to Bangladesh because IK has unwanted child. And by the way IK having an unwanted child is an "ILZAAM" yet to be proven.
"It is better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubts" Abraham Lincoln OR Mark Twain
Very well said Jaan. If the general population would start thinking around trhese lines, Pakistan would be a better place.
SC doesn't have the guts …and CJ is in Sharifs' pocket anyways…. so a complete waste of time!
which pocket side one or front.CJP has all kind of guts.I have looked all wiki leaks, inner content of agencies, till now only ISI can approach to these judges and try to pressurize them through different tactics but still no link is found between Sharif and Chaudry iftikhar.Zardari and shairf are two sides of same coin. upside down as per requirement.
I doubt very seriously you understood the language in the wiki leak documents,stop acting like you know it all.
desi, don't waste your time trying to educate Nazia. She is as dumb as they come. Her language skills are awful and she seems to stick her nose in things that she has no clue about.
desi guys you people have serious health problem named as night sickness.Those man who found virus like that should be advised to beware of facing or countering females in any field of life.So try this and in case of improvement given me thanks
I cant change your inbuilt doubts but try to leave doubt about other and think about your weaknesses.This is more important and would give you some insight senses which you have lost while keeping your squinted eyes on others .
I think SC will not do anything
if there is some concrete evidence with the SC it soulhd be made public.
otherwise justice will not have been seen to be done
tongues will wag and transparency will be a causality
already fakhroo bhai and co are under dark clouds, we would not want SC to be part of this
lol SC will never ever do so
one eye judge is married to sister in laws of Rana Sana ullah and he gets all his instructions from that route. Its not a supreme court rather a selective court who pass judgements on selective cases :))
KUCH NHI HU GAA
Justice must be done to all
SC and ECP together could not keep fake degree holders out of elections. If someone think something will happen on this issue…..jaa apni hasraton pe ansoo baha kay so ja.
Comments are closed.