Pak Premier’s possibility to disqualify, new contempt law strikes down

The Pakistan government is not ready to compromise with Parliamentary legislature. Following that rule, Pak Supreme Court struck down the government new Contempt of Court Act, implemented with aim to protect Primer from being pressured to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.

For Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, now time is come to revive graft cases against Zardari in Switzerland, because court has set possibility for him to disqualify from his post of he does not acted on the court’s order.

“Thus, having been left with no constitutional option, Contempt of Court Act 2012 is declared unconstitutional , void and non est, as a consequence whereof … it is declared that the Contempt of Court Ordinance 2003 shall be deemed to have revived…”, a bench of five-judge ruled, reports said.

Since 2009, Supreme Court has been ruling the government to reopen money laundering cases that benefited Zardari along with 8,000 others, but govt. continuously refused to do same as resulted former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani ousted disqualified for five years from his job, convicting contempt charges.

After appointing new Premier, Mr. Ashraf, Zardari suggesting leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition signed into law the new Contempt of Court Act after passing from two houses in July, but after one month apex court has dismissed it.

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