ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court on Monday referred the constitutional petition seeking disqualification of the Prime Minister to the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP), leaving it whether or not to continue with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification case on the CJP.
The three-member bench of the apex court, which heard the identical petitions at Supreme Court’s Quetta registry, remarked that the CJP had the constitutional authority to make a decision on the disqualification case.
Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja said petitions seeking the premier’s disqualification had raised important constitutional questions over which the court’s verdict was necessary.
He underlined the need of interpretation of Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution, adding that it was also important to figure out whether or not Prime Minister Nawaz defamed the country’s armed forces as has been alleged in the petitions.
The bench also recommended that senior lawyers Raza Rabbani, Hamid Khan and Khawaja Haris may be mada amicus curiae to assist the court on important questions of law.
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