The Supreme Court has issued conflicting verdicts on the subject of the disqualification period under Article 62(1)(F). But when the Supreme Court has accepted the Practice and Procedure Act as valid legislation to grant a right to appeal in suo moto cases under Article 184(3), why can it not accept an amendment by the Parliament to limit the disqualification period as five years?
This was discussed in the latest episode of Naya Daur TV's news analysis show Khabar Say Aagay.
During the episode, journalist Imran Wasim argued that the Constitution limits the Parliament's tenure at five years. At the same time, it fails to specify a tenure for disqualification. He said that if the Parliament has a tenure of five years, the disqualification of a politician should last for a similar length of time.
Journalist and Express News Islamabad Bureau Chief Aamir Ilyas Rana suggested that the period of interpretative Constitution lasted from former chief justice Saqib Nisar to the tenure of recently retired chief justice Umar Ata Bandial. During this time, he argued that the court rendered constitutionally and legally weak decisions, including decisions written in connivance with the establishment to disqualify Nawaz Sharif.
If the court is rectifying past mistakes today, why is everyone so perturbed? He asked.
Resolution in Senate
The resolution introduced and passed in the Senate on Friday, with just 14 senators present, was moved by a member of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) - the same party whose one member is currently the Senate chairman while a former member is currently the caretaker prime minister.
Raza Rumi noted that while the elected voted in favour of the resolution calling for elections to be postponed, the un-elected Caretaker Information Minister, Murtaza Solangi, opposed the resolution, arguing that elections should be held on time.
Imran Khan is walking on a one-way tract; he should create a path for his party. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto did not create a path, which is why he was hanged. Nawaz Sharif created that path; today, he stands to become PM for the fourth time.