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Petition to stop PM from work withdrawn
ISLAMABAD: The petition filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) making a plea to stop Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani from work has been withdrawn after adverse remarks from the court on Friday here, Geo News reported.While giving a preliminary hearing to G. M. Chaudhry’s petition praying the court to stop PM Gilani and his cabinet from work, Justice Shaukat Siddiqui in his remarks said that the Supreme Court itself has not disqualified the prime minister.
Justice Shaukat Siddiqui said that the decision on the appeal against punishment already carried out has to be done by the Supreme Court and inquired where it was written in the Supreme Court verdict that the PM has been disqualified? Supreme Court itself hasn’t disqualified the PM, he said. High Court decision on the petition against the PM could have countrywide impact, he added.
Justice Shaukat Siddiqui said that the basis for any issue could be moral, democratic, historical, constitutional, legal and political aspects and added that let the court remain confined to the constitutional.
The lawyer of the petitioner argued that following the court verdict, the Speaker has no authority for not removing the PM.
Justice Shaukat Siddiqui said that the matter relating to the disqualification of the member parliament being sent to the Election Commission and the constitutional way out existed in this regard.
Later, the court observed that there was no reason for accepting this petition for hearing. Thereafter, the lawyer of the petitioner withdrew the petition.
Courtesy www.geo.tv