Former president Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jahangir has said that adoption of show of hand procedure in senate polls is an open rigging.
“Holding of senate polls through show of hand is a flagrant rigging. Exercising right of vote by way of show of hand is a precedence which is being pursued nowhere in any country of the world. The politicians who think them to be wisdom incarnate can do whatever they will. However, they should settle rules and regulations of politics. This is not game of gilli-danda or cricket,” she said while talking to media outside the Lahore High Court Bar on Saturday.
She underlined the hue and cry being raised in parliament on horse-trading. She asked why political parties do not expel the horses from inside them. They should drive out the horse, and the trading will come to end automatically, she remarked.
Citing military courts, she said that people and lawyers are against terrorism. However, no steps should be taken ultra vires of constitution, she stressed. The dignity of judiciary cannot be sustained unless dignity of lawyers sustains, she underscored.