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February 3, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed has said that if the government doesn’t withdraw the Presidential Reference, the apex court will give its advice.
A five-member larger bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Yahyah Afridi and Justice Ijazul Ahsan resumed the hearing in the Presidential Reference.
Continuing his arguments, Attorney-General Khalid Javed submitted that the political parties earlier favouring holding of Senate elections through an open ballot were now opposing and creating hurdles to the process. “It is the obligation of the federal government that to ensure transparency in the elections, it is the desire of the government to hold the Senate elections through an open ballot, however, the market has been set for selling the horses for the elections.”
Top Story
February 3, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed has said that if the government doesn’t withdraw the Presidential Reference, the apex court will give its advice.
A five-member larger bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Yahyah Afridi and Justice Ijazul Ahsan resumed the hearing in the Presidential Reference.
Continuing his arguments, Attorney-General Khalid Javed submitted that the political parties earlier favouring holding of Senate elections through an open ballot were now opposing and creating hurdles to the process.
“It is the obligation of the federal government that to ensure transparency in the elections, it is the desire of the government to hold the Senate elections through an open ballot, however, the market has been set for selling the horses for the elections.”
Top Story
February 3, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed has said that if the government doesn’t withdraw the Presidential Reference, the apex court will give its advice.
A five-member larger bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Ijazul Ahsan, resumed the hearing in the Presidential Reference.
Continuing his arguments, Attorney-General Khalid Javed submitted that the political parties earlier favouring holding of Senate elections through an open ballot were now opposing and creating hurdles to the process.
“It is the obligation of the federal government that to ensure transparency in the elections, it is the desire of the government to hold the Senate elections through an open ballot, however, the market has been set for selling the horses for the elections.”
Asking as to where the procedure of Senate elections is written, the CJP said India has described the full method of open balloting of Senate elections
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Thursday observed that if the Constitution does not mention the procedure to hold Senate elections then the law will apply there.The federal government told the apex.