SC upholds IHC verdict on SAPMs, advisers’ appointment
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December 19, 2020
ISLAMABAD: A two-member bench of Supreme Court Friday rejected an appeal filed by Malik Munsif Awan of Justice Party against the verdict of Islamabad High Court dismissing his petition challenging the appointment of advisors and special assistants to the prime minister.
The bench comprised Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Ijazul Ahsen.
Muhammad Ikram Chaudhry, counsel for the petitioner, submitted that Article 99 of the Constitution empowered the federal government to frame rules of business, farmed in the 1973 constitution of Pakistan
The counsel argued that in the rules of business framed in 1973 Constitution, appointment of special assistants was provided in rule 4 sub rule 6 and in the appendix 1V-A