ISLAMABAD-
A seven member larger bench of Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP)on Tuesday dismissed all the petitions seeking Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification over his statement in National Assembly about the role of army in talks with protesting parties, a private news channel reported.
The seven member larger bench, headed by Chief Justice Nasir-ul Mulk, rejected all the three identical petitions filed by PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujat Hussain, Ishaq Khakwani of PTI and Gohar Nawaz Sindhu, President Insaf Lawyers Forum.
SC dismissed the petitions calling them ” political”. The judges of the apex court remarked that there is no contradiction in the statements of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Director General of Inter Services Public Relations Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa.
The petitioners had made a plea for the disqualification of PM from the public office over his August 29 speech in which PM had accepted to seek the assistance of army chief as mediator to settle the issues with protesting parties. However, PTI chairman Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahir-ul Qadri had rejected the speech and decried the premier for’ lying to nation’. Later on,the military had endorsed in a statement that it is playing the role of “facilitator” in ongoing political turmoil.
Not a good decision by SC.SC should be closed.
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