ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif insisted on Monday that all coalition party leaders in the Federal Government had expressed their lack of confidence in the Supreme Court bench hearing the suo motu case of polls delay during a meeting he presided over in Lahore last week.
Azam Nazeer Tarrar, the minister of law, expressed his disagreement with the bench’s makeup during the National Assembly session, and the prime minister supported his position. He claimed that Justice Ijazul Ahsan, another member of the bench, had resigned. He asked Pakistan’s Chief Justice to appoint a full court without two judges because it would be acceptable to the country.
Such a contentious decision, he said, would be against the norms of justice.
The prime minister referred to the CJP’s remarks in which he stated that certain people speaking in the National Assembly had undergone jail terms and said it was a matter of pride that he had been released by the high court on merit in the false and fabricated cases.
Imran Niazi and his collaborators had framed false cases against him and tried to implicate him in those fabricated cases, he added.
It was their right under the Constitution to express their views in the Parliament, he said, adding whether the CJP had referred to the witch-hunting of the opposition leaders during the PTI’s tenure.
The prime minister said there were serious allegations of corruption against certain members of the bench and by including them in the bench what message was given to the whole country. He stressed that the law of equality was applicable to all. Double standards would not work.
In London’s case, Imran’s lackey Shehzad Akbar, had got published a false story in the Daily Mail, London, but later the author tendered an apology, he added.
The prime minister said Imran Niazi during his rule had no other engagement but to spend his energies on devising nefarious schemes to send opposition leaders to jails. He mentioned that Imran had sent him twice to jail and was trying to send him for the third time.
Even his bail which was granted on merit by the high court during the PTI’s government was challenged in the Supreme Court, he added. He said he was released on merit and now standing in the Parliament. “My fault was that as leader of the opposition, they were countering the ill-devised policies of the PTI’s government and Niazi considered them as hurdles and acted like ‘Nero plays the flute when the Rome was on fire’.
Earlier, the law minister briefed the House about the proceedings in the apex court and reiterated that the coalition parties had already conveyed to the court to constitute a full court to hear the instant case.
