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Thursday, October 14, 2010
SC allows Khosa to defend government in NRO review plea
* Adjourns hearing until first week of November
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Latif Khosa to represent the federation in its review petition against the NRO after he filed an application for substitution of Kamal Azfar to plead the case in the court.
A 17-member larger bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was hearing a suo motu case about the non-implementation of its judgement on the NRO and the federation’s review petition against the court’s verdict that declared the NRO void ab initio.
It directed Khosa to inform the Pakistan Bar Council about relinquishing of his job as adviser to the prime minister on information technology and de-notification of his appointment as the adviser. Meanwhile, the court adjourned the hearing until the first week of November, announcing that it would be fixed on the availability of the larger bench.
Earlier, at the outset of the hearing when Khosa appeared before the larger bench as the federation’s counsel, the court observed that he could not represent the federation in its review petition against the NRO and ruled that an application would have to be moved in the apex court under Rule 6 of Order XXVI of the Supreme Court Rules 1980.
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