The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday reserved its verdict on pleas challenging the recent act which expands the scope of the review petition, Pakistan-based Dawn reported.
Despite Section 144 still being in effect in the capital city, demonstrators from various political parties, including JUI-F employees and sympathisers, converged on Islamabad. Many of them entered the Red Zone, according to Geo News.
According to ARY News, the motion was presented in the NA session after suspending the routine business of the house. The session of the lower house of the Parliament is underway in which the majority of the members are of the view that the Parliament should 'assert' its powers.
"Being the Chief Justice does not mean enslaving the state to a person who has burnt every symbol of national honour and national defence to ashes through his pet thugs," she tweeted.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial said that if the Constitution mandated polls within 90 days of an assembly's dissolution, then we are duty-bound to say so, according to Dawn.
There are clear divisions among the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) judges on the matter as some are against the apex court's "suo moto" powers - alleged to be arbitrarily exercised by CJP Bandial - in this case and has reportedly asked for a larger bench to address the ongoing political tur
The development comes after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the concerned authorities not to pursue the review petition moved against Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Munib Akhtar, reserved the judgment today after hearing all the parties, including the government, the PTI, the ECP and others. However, it did not hear the counsel of the coal