Summary A three-member SC bench will start hearing of petitions seeking PM Nawaz’s disqualification today.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Jawad S Khawaha, will start hearing of petitions seeking Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification today (Monday).
One of the petitions filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Ishaq Kakhwani requested the court to order disqualification of the prime minister “for falsely stating on the floor of parliament” that he had not asked the army chief to act as a mediator between the government, PTI Chairman Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Tahirul Qadri to end the political deadlock.
The petitioner alleged that Nawaz Sharif had tried to malign the army in violation of Article 62 of the constitution and stands disqualified for the public office.
The other petition for the disqualification of PM Nawaz Sharif has been filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Senator Shujaat Hussain. In the constitutional petition the PML-Q chief has taken the stance that during the sit-ins of Tahirul Qadri and Imran Khan in Islamabad Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked army chief General Raheel Sharif to play a role to help resolve this crisis on which the latter met the two leaders of the long march and sit-in.
He said but on protest from the opposition next day Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made the statement on the floor of parliament that he had not asked the army or the army chief to become the mediator nor entrusted him any such responsibility.
The petition states that “for making a wrong statement” on the floor of parliament Prime Minister Nawaz no longer stand sadiq and ameen under Article 62(F) and stands disqualified.
