Aitzaz Ahsan voices concerns against exceeding boundaries of judiciary

Voicing concerns over the exceeding limits of judiciary, Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) senior leader, Senator Aitzaz Ahsan, said the party will find another replacement if the Supreme Court removes Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf from his post.

While speaking to media, he observed, “The judiciary is crossing the limits. If the apex court’s orders to write the letter to Swiss authorities are a siege around the ruling party’s fort, the latter has announced, indirectly, that it is prepared to brave this out”.

Aitzaz Ahsan, the renowned lawyer, was of the opinion that there was no possibility of reaching any sort of compromise in the implementation of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation case.

Without chewing his words, he said that the premier will have to leave office if the time comes.

He noted, “There is no middle way if contempt proceedings against Prime Minister Ashraf are initiated as the Supreme Court is bound to remove the incumbent premier for contempt, as was done in the case of former premier Yousaf Raza Gilani”.

In his view, the situation will not be different in Prime Minister Ashraf’s case as the apex court didn’t accept his arguments in the case of former premier.

He anticipated that the extent of confrontation between the government and judiciary would be the removal of premier from his post, adding that the ruling PPP will accept the ruling whatever it would be.

He asserted that his party would bring in a new premier, even if it meant electing and presenting a dozen more prime ministers to complete the five-year term.

He noted, “Till March 2013, the Supreme Court will be engaged in sending back premiers while the PPP-led coalition government is determined to elect more”.

Making it clear that the government would never exercise any tactics which might harm the dignity of the court, he said the apex court could not dissolve parliament, nor can parliament oust the judiciary.

Ruling out any possibility of dissolution of parliament, he said it had been performing its role commendably in the field of lawmaking process.

He added, “Although the judiciary is not playing politics, some political elements are using this entire scenario for nefarious purposes”.

He was of the opinion that judiciary was on the wrong track in the NRO implementation case, even though it is not going beyond its limitations.

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