Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party Senator Faisal Raza Abidi on Sunday hurled allegation of being biased against Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and demanded resignations from him and other judges who were reinstated under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO).
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the senator said that his party would get rid of PCO judges and would present a bill in the parliament to reinstate the 110 judges who had been sacked earlier.
“The chief justice should have resigned after his son, Arsalan Iftikhar, was alleged to have indulged in financial impropriety,” the Abidi demanded.
He alleged that Chief Justice Iftikhar had directed the Lahore High Court (LHC) to issue a stay order in a case pertaining to the 46 billion rupees of outstanding dues on different cellular companies.
Abidi said his party would “force him out the same way he had been restored as a judge.”
He said the PPP had always respected the courts, adding that, the party’s ministers had appeared before the courts and even a PPP prime minister had been sacrificed.
Abidi said “a judicial martial-law has been imposed in the country.”
The senator said his party was being targeted by the court while cases against PPP’s opponents had been granted stay orders.
The PPP senator requested the government to come forward and take steps to restore the parliament’s supremacy, adding that, the parliament had the authority of enacting and amending laws.
Abidi said the parliament was supreme and above other institutions.
“Parliament is an institution which forms laws and constitutions. No one has the right to criticise its laws,” he said.
He said the courts should have taken action against dictators.
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