Yousuf Raza Gilani’s counsel Aitzaz Ahsan completes arguments

Yousuf Raza Gilani’s counsel Aitzaz Ahsan completes arguments

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry observed on Monday that petitions filed against the National Assembly speaker’s ruling on the issue of disqualification of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stated that Mr Gilani was ineligible to hold the office
after his conviction by the Supreme Court.

“Isn’t it a reality that a convicted person is currently representing 180 million Pakistanis,” said the chief justice who heads a three-judge bench hearing a number of identical petitions challenging the NA speaker’s ruling which had saved the prime minister
from being disqualified after his conviction in the contempt case.

Concluding his arguments, prime minister’s counsel Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan contended that the court had no authority to disqualify a parliamentarian and, therefore, the matter should be referred back to the NA speaker or sent to the Election Commission. He
argued that the case was not maintainable because the speaker’s ruling could not be challenged at any forum.

He said the sentence awarded by the apex court to the prime minister did not fall in the purview of disqualification. The verdict had not disqualified the prime minister, he added.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani was asked by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to write to the Swiss probe in order to re start an investigation in which the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari was named for being involved in a money laundering
case along with his deceased wife Benazir Bhutto. However, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani did not comply with the orders of the Supreme Court stating that the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari enjoyed complete immunity both within and
outside the country.

The case which the Supreme Court of Pakistan has been urging the government of the country ruled by the Pakistan People’s Party to re start came to a stop by the signing of the National Reconciliation Ordinance during the time that the President of the country
was Gen. (retd) Pervez Musharraf. However, the apex court of the country had deemed the NRO as illegal which in effect called for the re starting of the investigation. 

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