Islamabad: The Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, says that if the legislative authority of the Parliament is not to accept, then the mockery of the election should also be ended. He maintained that if the Supreme Court interferes in the matters of Parliament, its authority will also be challenged.
During an interview given to a private news website, he said that Parliament can refuse to accept the Supreme Court’s unconstitutional decision.
The Speaker said that the same Supreme Court, which is preventing the elected representatives of the people from making laws, had given military dictator Pervez Musharraf the right to amend the law. “The constitutional institutions of the state should work within their limits”, he added.
Pervaiz Ashraf said that the Parliament is the mother of all institutions from where the Constitution of Pakistan was formulated and according to it, epicenter of power is parliament, ‘’no other institution has this authority’’, he emphasized.
He said that he is unable to understand that when political parties and lawyers’ fraternity were demanding that a full court be constituted to address the issue of provincial assembly elections, what was wrong with it that instead of three or seven judges, full court listened to it.
If ambiguity can be removed from forming full court, then why is not anarchy avoided, he asked.
Apart from this, Speaker National Assembly said that the resignations of PTI cannot be reconsidered, if the court gives a decision in favor of PTI members, they can return to the assembly.
