Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has given a final deadline to government of October 05 to present a draft letter to be sent to Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
The apex court in its order on Wednesday said that October 5 would be final dead line for the government to present the letter.
A five-member bench comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Athar Saeed was hearing the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation case.
In the order, the SC said that few things were missing in the letter present by Farooq H Naek, the federal law minister, in the SC on Wednesday.
The court said that the contempt proceeding would be initiated against the Prime Minister if the government failed to present the better draft on next hearing. “Naek has insured the court that he will make a better draft of the letter.”
On Tuesday, the bench raised objection over few clauses of the letter and noted that there was a difference between reference numbers written on Naek’s letter and the one on Attorney General Malik Qayyum’s letter written in 2008.
Pakistan’s prime minister had told the Supreme Court that the government would comply with a longstanding demand to reopen an old corruption case against the president, defusing a conflict that has roiled the country’s political system and led to the ouster of the last premier.
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