ISLAMABAD
Prime Minister’s aide for parliamentary affairs Babar Awan said Saturday President Arif Alvi will file a reference in the Supreme Court as per the article 63-A of the constitution.
“Reference will ask two simple questions to the Apex Court” Babar Awan said Saturday while talking to media correspondents.
“Supreme Court’s verdict is on record. Current Chief Justice of Pakistan was heading the five-member bench [that issued the verdict]” Babar Awan said.
Babar Awan said disqualification of member National Assembly will be considered life-time, in case if the time-period is not mentioned.
“Our [dissident] members still have a chance to comeback. Otherwise, the disqualification would be lifetime” Babar Awan said.
On the other hand, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday issued show-cause notices to 14 of its lawmakers on grounds of alleged defection, and sought an explanation from them by March 26 as to why they may not be declared defectors and disqualified as a member of the National Assembly.
The move came as several dissident lawmakers of the ruling party recently came out in the open ahead of voting on a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan, with the government accusing opposition parties of horse-trading.
On Thursday, a number of PTI lawmakers were found staying at the Sindh House in Islamabad — which is the domain of the Sindh government — and some of them said while speaking to media persons that they would vote on the no-confidence motion tabled against the premier in “accordance with their conscience” and that they had developed differences with PM Imran.
