If govt wants to stay in office, it has to write the letter: Asma

Former Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Asma Jehangir has said if the government wants to stay in office, it will have to write a letter to the Swiss government for reopening of the cases, otherwise the situation would take a dangerous turn.
Talking to reporters at the Lahore High Court Bar on Wednesday, Asma said everybody was busy in creating a hype on the NRO issue therefore the government would ultimately have to write the letter.
Asma said although she has had a difference of opinion on many verdicts of the Supreme Court, she had always been advising the government to respect and implement the verdicts of the judiciary.
“The SC cannot do everything and it is in the interest of the each institution to remain within its constitutional limit and perform its functions,” she said. Asma said it would be difficult to move on if the judiciary took the powers of parliament, “but at the moment the government has no option except to implementation of the court orders”.
She alleged that SC judges were indulging in politics by trying to take powers of parliament as the matter that needed to be dealt with by politicians sitting in parliament was being decided by judges.
“The Supreme Court should be free from political judges and if judges of the apex court are interested in politics they should contest elections and come to parliament and leave the courts for the impartial judges,” she said.
She said she could not understand the judgement in the NRO case, adding that the matter was to be decided finally by a larger bench which would go a long way.
“No institution is a saint and above board because all have some loopholes and fingers may be pointed at any institution” she said, referring to the judiciary.
Asma said it would be a blunder to consider the judiciary perfect and savior of the nation at the cost of parliament which represented the people of the people.