Do you want political accountability? Chief Justice
Islamabad: The distinguished judge of the Supreme Court has remarked that keeping non-elected persons out of the NAB law is discriminatory.
A five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice, heard the NAB amendments case. PTI founder appeared in court through video link from Adiala Jail.
Lawyer Farooq H Naik told the court that I am supporting Justice Mansoor Ali Shah’s note.
Judicial assistant lawyer Khawaja Haris started the arguments and said that in the main case I have explained the violation of fundamental rights in detail, NAB amendments are violation of Article 9, 14, 25 and 24, NAB Ordinance came in 1999 in Musharraf government. was
Justice Athar Manullah asked that why the authority of NAB was placed only on the elected public office holder, why the authority of NAB was not placed on the non-elected? Keeping non-elected persons out of NAB law is discrimination.
Chief Justice’s lawyer told PTI founder Do you want political accountability? Do you want the law to remain as it was before?
PTI founder lawyer Khawaja Haris argued that the NAB amendments were for the benefit of certain individuals, as certain political leaders were behind bars at the time.
Justice Athar Manullah said that where the elected representative has the authority to distribute public funds, give an example, corruption is not done by the elected representative but by the principal accounting officer.
Justice Jamal Khan Mandukhel remarked that no elected representative or minister gives any approval without the summary of the concerned secretary, should a secretary write in the summary that this thing is against the rules, then the minister can give approval? Higher authorities should have the courage to refuse.
The Chief Justice said that the same party which challenged the law in the Supreme Court also challenged it in the High Court. Coming to the Supreme Court, was it the purpose to buy at will, when Sahib challenged in the High Court, why did he not tell the Supreme Court, it is very easy to criticize, sitting on TV, Shoaib Shaheen talks and appears in front of us. answer me.
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