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SC rejects government NRO review pleas
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday rejected the government’s pleas to review the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) verdict, Geo News reported.The decision was given by a full bench of the SC headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry after the government failed to prepare any case for the review.
A seventeen-member larger bench resumed hearing of the Federation's pending pleas seeking review of certain aspects of December 16, 2009 decision.
In Friday’s proceedings, the court asked Law Secretary Masood Chishti to read the complete text of letters exchanged between Pakistan and Swiss authorities in 1997.
The chief justice then reprimanded the law secretary as he refused to read any further after the first letter.
The second letter was read by Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq on court's directives later.
The apex court on Thursday allowed the federation to file additional documents with the review petition on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
The court had earlier declined to accept additional documents with the ruling that as per settled rules of the apex court, additional documents could not be accepted at the review stage.
The court directed Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq to ask Dr Babar Awan to file additional documents from the federal government on Friday.
Courtesy www.Geo.tv