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184. Original Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.
(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 199, the Supreme Court shall, if it considers that a question of public importance with reference to the enforcement of any of the Fundamental Rights conferred by Chapter I of Part II is involved have the power to make an order of the nature mentioned in the said Article. REFERENCE: PART VII The Judicature Chapter 2. THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/part7.ch2.html The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/
[204 Contempt of Court.
(1) In this Article, "Court" means the Supreme Court or a High Court.
(2) A Court shall have power to punish any person who,
(a) abuses, interferes with or obstructs the process of the Court in any way or disobeys any order of the Court;
(b) scandalizes the Court or otherwise does anything which tends to bring the Court or a Judge of the Court into hatred, ridicule or contempt;
(c) does anything which tends to prejudice the determination of a matter pending before the Court; or
(d) does any other thing which, by law, constitutes contempt of the Court.
(3) The exercise of the power conferred on a Court by this Article may be regulated by law and, subject to law, by rules made by the Court.]. REFERENCE: PART VII (contd) The Judicature Chapter 4: General Provisions Relating to The Judicature http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/part7.ch4.html The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/
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Senator Syed Faisal Raza Abidi - Part 4 (Aaj Ki Khaber 17 March 2011)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvhhNK2sdk
Ahmad Noorani adds: With regard to the chief justice of the Lahore High Court, the report in The News only mentioned that comments had been made on the media and ìsome leadersî had ìclaimedî that he was also on board and acted on ‘suggestion’ of Shahbaz Sharif but The News had also in the same sentence clarified that these claims could not be verified from independent sources. The News actually negated the propaganda against the court by pointing out that what was being telecast and discussed on different news channels had not been confirmed by independent sources. The News story clearly stated that Pakistan Army, ISI and Punjab chief minister were the major players to get Raymond free. We maintain that The News has always respected and will continue to respect the independent judiciary of the country. REFERENCE: LHC says CJ had no knowledge of Davis deal News Desk Friday, March 18, 2011 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=4704&Cat=13&dt=3/18/2011
Siasat Pk Capital Talk 17th March 2011 P 1 URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TooPMNWyt6g
ISLAMABAD: Keeping aside the role played by the state institutions and respective governments in freeing American killer Raymond Davis, top jurists and lawyers say the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry should take suo motu notice of the whole Raymond Davis case declaring that the judge who ordered his release showed gross negligence while penning down his decision. Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saeed-ul-Zaman Siddiqui told The News that the killing of the two Pakistanis, investigated by police was an act of terrorism and amounted to ‘Fasad’ so Raymond could not be freed by acceptance of Diyat. He said that by ordering the release of Raymond the concerned judge has abused his powers. He said that there were charges of spying against the man and he couldn’t be freed in such indecent haste.
Siasat Pk Capital Talk 17th March 2011 P 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiZx6L3xLYQ&feature=related
Siddiqui said that the judge was supposed to examine the nature of the murder and as this is a clear case of terrorism and Fasad so it should have been decided accordingly. He said that only the state could have forgiven Davis. Former judge of the Supreme Court Justice Wajihuddin Ahmad told The News that Diyat couldn’t be accepted in such a case in which acts against the state are committed, as Davis was alleged to have committed spying by not less than the provincial law minister of Punjab and was accused of terrorizing people. Wajih, also a former chief justice of the Sindh High Court said, secondly, without the consent of the heirs of Shumaila, the wife of Faheem, the Diyat could not be allowed. He said as Shumaila was alive at the time of assassination of Faheem so without the consent of heirs of Shumaila, Diyat couldn’t be accepted in any case. As the Diyat of Shumaila is also deposited in the court, this very fact is proof that malafide was committed as Diyat is only given after consent of the parties and no consent of Shumaila’s heirs was taken.
Siasat Pk Capital Talk 17th March 2011 P 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9YtHj4YHNM&feature=related
Justice Wajih said that the haste in which two petitions were dismissed by the Lahore High Court shows there were certain problems and issues. He said that according to his thinking the day of March 16 was chosen deliberately to give a message to the masses that the judiciary is still not fully independent. Wajih said that as there are great irregularities in the case committed by the Punjab government and other stakeholders so Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry should take immediate suo motu notice of the situation. Other senior lawyers and top legal minds appeared on TV programmes and appealed to the Chief Justice to take suo motu notice regarding the role of the Punjab government and other institutions in freeing Raymond Davis. Senior lawyer Barrister Ali Zafar told The News that there is no doubt that Davis was involved in acts against the state and spying and could not be freed merely by accepting Diyat. He said that beside the courts, the Punjab government is primarily responsible for letting Davis free. REFERENCE: Jurists urge CJ to take suo motu against judge Ahmad Noorani Friday, March 18, 2011 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=4698&Cat=13&dt=3/18/2011
Siasat Pk Capital Talk 17th March 2011 P 4
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUHKwkPMNsc&feature=related
ISLAMABAD: Over a decade back an American official had stated: “Pakis can sell their mother for ten dollars.” Our past rulers have been proving it time and again and Musharraf broke all past records of his loyalty to Washington throughout his nine-year dictatorship and today we have demonstrated it yet again under the so-called democratic rulers. We have sold ourselves once again. Our real masters — the Americans — must be very pleased with the work of their puppets in Islamabad and Lahore. However, there are serious apprehensions that this latest shame earned for Pakistan would unleash a new wave of terrorism and fuel extremism in the country. Only time will tell as to who in the establishment and amongst the civilian rulers of Lahore and Islamabad sold their souls, dignity and honour of the nation to facilitate the smooth release and return of the American double murderer Raymond Davis. However, in view of an earlier court judgment Islamic law of Diyat is not applicable in the offences that fall under the expression of “Fasad-fil-Arz”. Additionally, Davis involvement in spying business was a crime against state, this point was altogether ignored by the federal and provincial governments.
Will Shahbaz Sharif Resign as per Promise??? (28 March 2011)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4NTWlAjUn8&feature=channel_video_title
Although, it is for the religious scholars and jurists to ponder if Raymond’s case falls in the category of “Fasad-fil-Arz” or it was a routine “murder” invoking the provision of Diyat, this very aspect was not discussed by the Lahore sessions court. The Punjab prosecution also did not raise this aspect of this strange outcome of the Raymond case. Raymond was on ECL but he was allowed to fly abroad without any problem. The news was broken to the media only after Raymond had left the soil of Pakistan. We never thought that we would be sold in this manner and so cheaply. We knew well that Nawaz Sharif had once sold Aimal Kansi to the Americans, Benazir Bhutto handed over Yousaf Ramzi to US and the ISI and Pakistan Army under Musharraf presented hundreds of Pakistanis and other nationals including the daughter of Pakistan Dr Aafia Siddiqui to US but we mistakenly thought that it might not be possible for all of them now because of the independent media and the judiciary. But they did it again to Pakistan and did it so shamelessly.
Jang Group/GEO TV is playing Double Agent on Raymond Davis.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEyfC4s9N1Y&feature=channel_video_title
Raja Arshad Ahmed, former attorney general and counsel representing heirs of one of the deceased, told this correspondent that the Punjab government’s prosecution did not raise the issue that this case falls in the category of “Fasad-fil-Arz”. Raymond Davis was a CIA agent. He has been involved in spying and according to the investigations of Punjab police he was involved in a cold blooded murder. Davis was an enemy of the state and there are many other Davis like American agents in Pakistan allegedly involved in creating chaos in Pakistan. None of these facts were placed before the court neither did the judge apply his mind from this very aspect and ended up settling the issue as a routine murder case under Qisas and Diyat law of Islamic jurisprudence. It was reported by The News on February 20 that a Peshawar High Court decision might spoil Washington’s option to get waived the right of Qisas and Diyat of the heirs of those killed by Raymond Davis by paying blood money. The court order was also briefly reproduced in the story but the Punjab government found it convenient to ignore this important aspect to ensure the smooth release of Raymond Davis.
Jang Group & GEO TV misguide & malign JUDICIARY (Column Kaar 16 October 2010)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFKing5PMSY&feature=channel_video_title
In a recent decision — PLD 2006 Peshawar 82 — the PHC had denied benefits to a murderer of four persons despite the fact that the heirs of the deceased had compromised with the accused ruling, “Where case of an offender falls under the expression ‘Fasad-fil-Arz’ he shall not be entitled to any grace and leniency...” After the matter was taken up by the Lahore High Court and the possibility of immunity became impossible, according to media reports, these were the rulers of Islamabad and Punjab who had suggested to the Americans that they should pay the blood money under Islamic laws to the heirs and get their murderer released. A legal expert and ex-judge of the Lahore High Court recently told this correspondent that in his view and as per the Peshawar High Court decision the case of Raymond Davis did not fall in the category where it could be settled under Qisas and Diyat law.
Jang Group & GEO TV Murdered Salman Taseer & Shahbaz Bhatti (Abbas Athar BBC URDU)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oezMKgwsG0&feature=relmfu
Referring to the case, heard by the then CJ PHC Justice Tariq Parvez Khan and Justice Muhammad Qaim Jan Khan, the expert on condition of not being named said that in the said case all the legal heirs of four deceased had waived their right of Qisas and Diyat but still the murderer was not freed. According to the judgment, authored by the then CJ PHC Justice Tariq: “Although all the surviving legal heirs of the four deceased have waived their right of Qisas and Diyat and their compromise appears to be genuine because of inter se close relationship but we are not inclined to give full effect to the compromise because under section 338-E, PPC notwithstanding waiver or compounding of the offence, the court may in its discretion having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, can award Ta’zir to the offender according to the nature of the offence.”
The judgment said that a wali (heir) is entitled to waive or compound the right of Qisas but still the court may in its discretion punish an offender against whom right of Qisas has been waived or compounded with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years as Ta’zir. “Keeping in view the principle of Fasad-fil-Arz, the court may in its discretion having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case punish an offender against whom the right of Qisas has been waived or compounded with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years as Ta’zir,” says the judgment.
The judgment added that the insertion of expression “Fasad-fil-Arz” is the requirement of socio-cultural setup and to maintain law and order and to save the civic society from deterioration. In the context of Punjab police investigation proving Davis to have killed two young men in a cold blooded manner, it is interesting to read this part of the PHC judgment, “Where a person for no sufficient reason resorted to indiscriminate firing, taking lives of four innocent ladies which include his wife and three young daughters, should not go scot-free just because the legal heirs of the four deceased have waived and compounded the offence against the offender.” The judgment said, “It is a case in which the expression ‘Fasad-fil-Arz’ is fully applicable because killing of innocent persons which include a man or woman but for no reason and that too in brutal manner has not only ruined the family but has very insecure impact on the public at large.......” REFERENCE: ‘We have sold ourselves, once again’ Ansar Abbasi Thursday, March 17, 2011 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=4669&Cat=13&dt=3/17/2011
Glaring Example of Judicial Misconduct
Source: Daily Express http://express.com.pk/images/NP_LHE/20100630/Sub_Images/1100984046-2.gif
Of Plots Judges Journalists Across the Board Justice Part 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTvG86WHIsY&feature=channel_video_title
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Of Plots Judges Journalists Across the Board Justice Part 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfMUTUiZNDs&feature=related
The set criteria requires an applicant to fill out an official form and give an affidavit that he or she does not own other plots or houses in the city. According to the official documents placed before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), copies of which are available with The Express Tribune, the three judges are former chief justice of Pakistan Sheikh Riaz Ahmed and Lahore High Court (LHC) judges Faqeer Mohammad Khokar and Justice Mumtaz Ali Mirza. Ahmed was allotted a one-kanal (approximately 600 square yards) plot on November 17, 2002, in G-14/4, while Khokar and Mirza got plots in G -14. This flouting of rules raises several questions over the allotment process and its transparency. One hundred judges, including the current Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, have been allotted plots in Islamabad since 1996, but these three judges were allotted plots without fulfilling legalities.
Of Plots Judges Journalists Across the Board Justice Part 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxXtHTgahXE&feature=related
An official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that missing records meant that these judges had not filled out the proper official forms. “It seems that orders were verbally issued and immediately obeyed by the [allotment] authorities,” the source said. “The top guns of the FGEHF clearly failed to follow the rules and simply obliged the sitting judges of the Supreme Court (SC) and the LHC.” The missing record, the source said, showed that the housing ministry was unaware of when these judges were born and joined the judiciary, and whether they were retired or were still serving. The documents reveal that the FGEHF allotted plots in the same manner to some civilian officials, whose dates of birth were also missing from the records.
One of these officials is Nadeem Shah Malik who was working as a financial adviser to the ministry of housing and works. He was allotted a plot in Sector G-13/2 on December 22, 2009. Nine other civilian employees were also allotted plots in Sector G-14 despite incomplete records. These officials are Khalida Begum (Intelligence Bureau), Rashida Begum (Pakistan Post), Aziza Begum (finance ministry), Resham Jaan (Survey of Pakistan), Shamim Akhtar (finance division), Fehmida Begum (Pakistan Post), Ziat Maman (customs department), Sardari Begum (Pakistan Post), Maryam (agriculture department). Earlier, media reports said that some well-connected SC judges tampered with the FGEHF’s official records and received a second plot each. The reports claimed that several critical files, which contained official records of expensive government plots allotted to bigwigs of Islamabad such as [now retired] Justice Sardar Raza Khan, were missing. Evidence surfaced that in Justice Raza’s case, the process of balloting was scrapped and he was given a multimillion-rupee corner plot of his choice. The then FGEHF director-general Arshad Mirza, a District Management Group officer and a relative of Justice Raza, was accused of tampering with Justice Raza’s records to enable him to acquire a second plot. These reports were never challenged. After reading these media reports, PAC chairperson Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had ordered an inquiry against Mirza, a report of which is also pending before the PAC. Amid this scam, Mirza was also removed from office. REFERENCE: Land allotments: Verbal orders trump proper procedure Rauf Klasra Published in The Express Tribune, November 27th, 2010.
One of these officials is Nadeem Shah Malik who was working as a financial adviser to the ministry of housing and works. He was allotted a plot in Sector G-13/2 on December 22, 2009. Nine other civilian employees were also allotted plots in Sector G-14 despite incomplete records. These officials are Khalida Begum (Intelligence Bureau), Rashida Begum (Pakistan Post), Aziza Begum (finance ministry), Resham Jaan (Survey of Pakistan), Shamim Akhtar (finance division), Fehmida Begum (Pakistan Post), Ziat Maman (customs department), Sardari Begum (Pakistan Post), Maryam (agriculture department). Earlier, media reports said that some well-connected SC judges tampered with the FGEHF’s official records and received a second plot each. The reports claimed that several critical files, which contained official records of expensive government plots allotted to bigwigs of Islamabad such as [now retired] Justice Sardar Raza Khan, were missing. Evidence surfaced that in Justice Raza’s case, the process of balloting was scrapped and he was given a multimillion-rupee corner plot of his choice. The then FGEHF director-general Arshad Mirza, a District Management Group officer and a relative of Justice Raza, was accused of tampering with Justice Raza’s records to enable him to acquire a second plot. These reports were never challenged. After reading these media reports, PAC chairperson Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had ordered an inquiry against Mirza, a report of which is also pending before the PAC. Amid this scam, Mirza was also removed from office. REFERENCE: Land allotments: Verbal orders trump proper procedure Rauf Klasra Published in The Express Tribune, November 27th, 2010.
Saturday, November 27, 2010, Zilhajj 20, 1431 A.H
http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/nov2010-daily/27-11-2010/main.htm
Of Plots, Judges, Journalists & Across the Board Justice Part 5
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmWOyNUV42o&feature=related
A quick look at the list reveals that majority of the judges got residential plots in Islamabad when they were serving in the high courts. JUDGES: Following are Supreme Court judges who got plots: Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Justice (retd) Manzoor Hussain Sial, Justice Saad Saud Jan, Justice Fazal Elahi Khan, Justice Abdul Hafeez Memon, Justice Mukhtar Ahmed Junejo, Justice Raja Afrasiab Khan, Justice Moahmmad Bashir Jahangiri, Justice Saeeduzzam Siddiqi. Besides, the following judges of the four provincial high courts also got plots.
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JOURNALISTS: Sohail Ilyas, Mujeebur Rehman Shami, Abdul Ghani Ch, Zia Shahid, Rukhsana Saulat Saleem, Mohammad Anwar Khalil, Abdul Wadood Qureshi, Mian Ghaffar Ahmed, Rana Tahir Mahmood, Malik Abdul Rehman Hur, Nadeem Fazil Khan, Hamad Raza Shami, Farooq Ahmed, Rana Assar Ali Chohan, Azeem Chaudhry, Aslam Khan, Mohammad Naeem Chaudhry, Mohammad Aniq Zafar, Abdul Saeed Khan Qamar, Mohammad Dilshaad Khan, Naveed Miraj, Tahir Masood Ikram, Sultan Mohammad Sabir, Saghir Khalid, Mazhar Barlas, Maqbool Elahi Malik, Mohammad Arshad Yousuf, Javed Iqbal Qureshi, Haroon Rashid, Malik Shakeelur Rehman Hur, Wajid Rasool, Ashfaq Ahmed, Mohammad Zahid Jhangvi, Tahir Khalil, Khalid Azeem Ch, Mian Khursheeduzaman, Abdul Mohi Shah, Hilal Ahmed, Khalid Sial, Amir Iyas Rana, Zamir Hussain Shah, Aziz Ahmed Alvi, Ahmed Hussain, Rafaqat Ali, Syed Najamul Islam Rizvi, Mohsin Raza Khan, Irfan Ahmed Qureshi, Syed Ibrar Hussain Shah Kunwal, Nasir Aslam Raja, Mohammad Arshad, Ch Iylas Mohammad, Ghazanfar Ali Zaidi, Fazeela Gul, Iftikar Shakeel, Syed Ejaz Shah, Mohammad Ayub Nasir, Mohammad Saleem and Tariq Aziz. REFERENCES: New list of plot beneficiaries presented in Senate Saturday, January 16, 2010 By our correspondent http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=219055 Journalist and Plots, read page 4 of Daily Jang Friday, January 15, 2010, Muharram 28, 1431 A.H http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/jan2010-daily/15-01-2010/main4.htm The News Senate gets list of judges, bureaucrats who got two plots each Friday, January 15, 2010 By Rauf Klasra http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=218849 Myth busted: Chief justice also got a plot Rauf Klasra Published in The Express Tribune, November 25th, 2010. http://tribune.com.pk/story/81570/myth-busted-chief-justice-also-got-a-plot/
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The demand for an apology was soon backed by another identical demand for Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
An inside story of yesterday’s ‘call-on’ was making rounds in the cafeteria about the infamous last-minute call from the Rawalpindi Garrisons to Shahbaz Sharif and his 15-minute stay with ‘the man in uniform’. The meeting was crispy, to the point and ended with a ‘you may leave’ note, said the moles. A party insider disclosed that there is nothing wrong with the ADC calling SS to see the chief. He said both Sharifs have been so used to landing at the GHQ since the Ziaul Haq days that they often forget democracy has returned to the country. He said SS, in particular, loved to have tea in the lush green lawns of the army houses, and whenever he left Model town, in the old days, or Jati Umra, now, he would call the ADC to enjoy habitual tea with the chief. Whether he justified yesterday’s quick-fix or revealed more kept every one of us amused. What remained an issue bugging parliamentarians and journalists alike afterwards was that at least there was someone who could get things fixed, be it the lawyers’ led long march of March 16, 2009, or divergence from tracks, when it comes to politicians, but will someone be able to curtail the political statements of My Lords? A former black-coat-turned senator said in a philosophical tone, “The nation is being collectively punished for the policies of khakis and politicians through suicide bombings, and now the judiciary has thought that it too should pay back the nation for the mistakes of the same actors who elevated their political favourites, some even contested as local bodies councillors on party tickets, to judicial pedestals.” Keeping his pitch, he questioned who would now take suo motu notice of the politicisation of our judiciary, the current CJP or those who helped him regain the post? Who helped him was a question in chorus and realizing that his tongue should not slip like Khawaja Sharif or his Kashmiri brother Shahbaz Sharif, he said “of course, the masses.”
Realising that the senator had gone into cautious mode, one of his fellow senators from a leftist party said that activisms didn’t have a long shelf life in this country. We have seen left parties, then the military, then the political parties and now the judiciary, and without any hassle, one can conclude that ultimately, with the exception of the military, none other has survived the hijacking by vested interests, he said in an attempt to add a twist to the debate. By that time the first senator regrouped his thoughts to announce that another goody-goody atmosphere is emerging, as the PML-N members would start listening to Gilani in addition to sharing the subsidy-marred coffers of Punjab with the PPP ministers. He said that following the ‘call on’, Chaudhry Nisar had been immediately asked to re-connect the lost connections with Gilani, and he did so at last night’s dinner hosted by Ghulam Bilour. Now, Ishaq Dar, Chaudhry Nisar and SS would have a meeting with the premier and in the coming days, Nawaz Sharif, would resurface as another father of the reconciliation agenda. While the answer to if there will be any memorandum of understanding (MoU) for My Lords remains elusive, it is not impossible and “just before taking a commercial break, let me tell you someone out there is keeping a log book on all of them.” REFERENCE: Is there any MoU for My Lords? By Saeed Minhas Wednesday, March 17, 2010 http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C03%5C17%5Cstory_17-3-2010_pg7_1
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While drawing attention of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to what he called worry caused to Hindus, he appealed to Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of Justice Sharif’s remarks. As Inter-Provincial Coordination Minister Pir Aftab Shah Jilani and some other members of the ruling PPP went out of the chamber to persuade the protesters to return, party chief whip and Labour and Manpower Minister Khurshid Ahmed Shah told the house the judge seemed to be blaming India for financing the Taliban rather Hindus, adding he was sure a clarification would come “by tomorrow”. PML-N’s Rashid Akbar Niwani said judges should devote to dispensation of justice instead of seeking publicity as he also advised the media to exercise “restraint”, particularly blasting unspecified television anchorpersons who, he said, should also be held accountable for their earnings together with “heads of (government) institutions” as often-maligned elected politicians. REFERENCE: A judge is judged in NA, with walkout By Raja Asghar Wednesday, 17 Mar, 2010 http://news.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/19-a-judge-is-judged-in-na,-with-walkout-730-hh-07
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He was speaking at a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Wednesday a day after he had announced observing a black day on the day Hakim Ali Zardari, father of President Asif Zardari, would be summoned by the court in a NAB reference. “We are going to file a reference in the Supreme Judicial Council against Khwaja Sharif for acting as a PML-N spokesman,” Riaz said. “Is a chief justice authorised to represent a proclaimed offender and can he advise a major political party to quit the government,” he asked and further inquired whether the statement of Khwaja Sharif was worthy of a high court chief justice. “This is a conspiracy against the PPP government. The Sharif courts are trying to corner the largest political party of the federation but we will not allow them to succeed,” Riaz said and added that the PPP had defeated military dictatorships in the past and now it was capable of fighting against “judicial dictatorship”. “I, on behalf of 108 PPP Punjab legislators, urge Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry to take note of the statement of Khwaja Sharif,” Riaz added.
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