Supreme Court cannot adopt third way in NRO implementation case: Aitzaz Ahsan

Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Senator Aitzaz Ahsan has said that the Supreme Court couldn’t adopt any middle way in the NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) implementation case.

Speaking to private TV channel, the renowned jurist predicted that the apex court would give a similar ruling against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf as it did against Yousaf Raza Gilani if the government refuses to write the letter to Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.

Raja Pervez Ashraf would be replaced with a new one if the present premier is disqualified by the court and the process would continue until the scheduled general elections in March 2013.

He clearly stated that his party would decline to budge from its decision not to write a letter to Swiss authorities, fearing that at least six prime ministers would be sent home if the current situation continued.

“A new premier will come if the incumbent one is sent packing. And the same string of events will continue till March 2013,” he added.

He said that the decision to disqualify a sitting prime minister was an unprecedented act in the 500 year history of courts.

He questioned that how a five-member bench adopt a middle way for the same matter when a seven-judge bench had disqualified a prime minister.

He observed, “The court gave the present PM a relaxation of 22 days for taking a decision, but the Supreme Court did not display such courtesy when he pursued the case for former PM Yousaf Raza Gilani”.

He was of the opinion that the court might have realized that the Gilani verdict was delivered in haste.

Answering a question, Aitzaz said President Asif Ali Zardari enjoyed immunity not as a person but as an incumbent president, and the court was bound to respect this immunity.

He remarked, “I am quite satisfied with the reinstatement of the independent judiciary as a result of the lawyers’ movement; otherwise, former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf would have been sitting as a uniformed president even today”.

He said he was not seeing any imminent threat to the parliamentary system, asserting that it was only the premier who could advice the president to dissolve the assemblies.

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