Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered to withdraw the curative review reference against Senior Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faiz Isa.
The government has decided not to pursue the reference against Justice Qazi Faiz Isa.
The Prime Minister directed the Law Minister to withdraw the curative review reference.
The Prime Minister said that Justice Qazi Faiz Isa and his family were harassed and defamed in the name of reference.
The Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister has already approved this decision.
Earlier, making a veiled reference to the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification by Supreme Court in 2017, Justice Qazi Faez Isa Saturday said a prime minister was declared unfit for any public office because he refused to take a salary from his son.
“I will not comment on the decision, but it reads that: You (Nawaz Sharif) did not declare the salary you were to receive. By not declaring that salary, you have misrepresented the facts before the court that’s why you are not a good Muslim,” Isa quoted the text of that verdict while speaking at 4th Asma Jehangir Conference.
The PML-N supremo was fired as prime minister and disqualified from holding public office by the Supreme Court in July 2017 and convicted in absentia a year later. The five judges in a unanimous ruling said those who are not “honest” and “truthful” under the country’s constitution are “banned from parliament for life.”
The justice said that Pakistan’s coming into being was unprecedented in the world. “Pakistan was created in a democratic way.”
Summarising the country’s turbulent democratic history punctuated by occasional military interventions, Justice Isa said the first attack on democracy was perpetrated by a bureaucrat Ghulam Mohammad.
It must be noted that the final draft of Pakistan’s first Constitution was prepared in 1954. By that time, Muhammad Ali Bogra had assumed the office of the Prime Minister. However, just before the draft could be presented before the House for approval, the assembly was dissolved by the then Governor General Ghulam Muhammad on October 24, 1954.
“The constitution clearly lays down the distribution of authority for different institutions and the judiciary is one of them.”
