An 11-member larger bench of the Supreme Court will today (Monday) resume hearing in a presidential reference seeking a review of the death sentence awarded to PPP’s founder and former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The larger bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry consists of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Nasirul Mulk, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Ghulam Rabbani. The attorney general for Pakistan, law secretary, provincial advocates general, senior lawyers Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, SM Zafar, Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, Makhdoom Ali Khan, Aitzaz Ahsan, Tariq Mehmood, Asma Jahangir and others will assist the court in the case.
