The Supreme Court of Pakistan has issued a written order for the hearing to be held on May 30 on the NAB amendments intra-court appeals.
In the written order issued by the Supreme Court, it has been said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government requested to see the court proceedings directly and a justification was presented in the request that the court proceedings of this case were direct compared to other cases. Non-broadcasting is discriminatory, KP government’s justification is untrue as very few cases were televised live.
The written order stated that some cases were telecasted live but later the telecast was stopped keeping in view the requirements of justice. How the fundamental rights of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government are being deviated from.
The Supreme Court said that the request of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to show the live broadcast is rejected, a pilot project was started to show the court proceedings live in the full court meeting on September 18, 2023, the procedure was decided to show the court proceedings live. A committee consisting of Justice Athar Minullah and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar was formed to do this.
In the written order, it is written that the Judges Committee in its report dated October 16, 2023 suggested making rules for live streaming. So far, 40 court proceedings have been shown live.
The Supreme Court said that the possibility of using the live court proceedings for personal purposes cannot be ruled out while it, founder PTI never appeared before the court in the petition filed against the NAB amendments, in the NAB amendments case. Founder PTI has engaged the services of Khawaja Haris as counsel while Founder PTI has not made the KP government a party in its petition.
It has been said in the order that appeals have been filed against the NAB amendment decision of 15 September 2023, a notice has been sent to the founder PTI in jail on the intra-court appeals, on the request of the representation of the founder PTI, they have been provided with a video link facility. Permission was granted while he was also allowed to meet the lawyers, although the founder PTI will now be represented by lawyers, but still the facility of video link will remain available to the founder PTI.
In the written order, it has been said that the public has not shown any interest in the case of NAB amendments. On the grounds that the court rejects the application for live streaming, the court’s concerns were justified at the end of the court proceedings.
The Supreme Court wrote in the order that while speaking to the court, the founder chairman PTI mentioned the formation of a judicial commission on the general elections, these matters have nothing to do with the NAB amendments intra-appeals, the request for live streaming in this case is inadmissible. And not on merit.
It is written in the order that there were 53 hearings of the NAB amendment central case, in which the PTI founder did not appear in even one of them and he did not request to telecast the proceedings live. Did not request to show the right.
The Supreme Court said that the KP government is not a party in this case, if the head of a political party who is not even a lawyer is heard, it creates a strong possibility that the court proceedings are for political purposes and point scoring. may be used, our apprehensions were justified when the founder PTI mentioned the formation of a judicial commission on the issue of general elections on May 30 and other such cases which were not scheduled for hearing before us at that time. The fundamental rights of the parties who are not before us are likely to be affected.