SC order
Tarar says full court bench could remove ambiguity on Article 63A
ISLAMABAD
Minister for Interior Rana Sana Ullah on Monday said that they would mull over the option of not becoming party to the judicial proceeding if their request to constitute larger bench of the Supreme Court was not granted. Talking to the media persons outside the Supreme Court along with Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazir Tarar and provincial PML-N lawmaker Attaullah Tarar, he said that they have requested the apex court to constitute the larger bench in the Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker’s ruling case.
Only the formation of a larger bench could resolve the controversy in the current scenario, he added.
He said all political parties and the entire nation have complete confidence on the full court and even the Supreme Court Bar Association has already filed a review petition for becoming a party into the Presidential Reference case regarding interpretation of Article 63 of the Constitution which had been admitted for hearing.
We plead that the apex court may take up the identical petitions for hearing in the full bench, he added. Federal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar on Monday said that only the head of a political party was the authority to declare the party policy in accordance with the
Talking to newsmen outside the Supreme Court along with Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan and PML-N Leader Attaullah Tarar, he said that all the ambiguity into the matter would be removed with the constitution of a full bench of apex court.
Azam Nazeer Tarar said that Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q)’s head wanted to support PML-N’s candidate in the Punjab province as it was already in alliance with the ruling party in federal government and its two MNAs were part of the federal cabinet. He further said that the top court had given judgment in 2015 that party’s head had the authority to take decisions regarding party’s policy, adding that a full court bench now could examine the situation and interpret the article 63A. The minister said that it had been stated that a party’s chief was a strong voice of the concerned political party who decides party tickets, voting in the house and even he could suspend the party membership of anyone. He said that they would accept the judgment of the full court bench into the matter.
