Dawood Ahmed :
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan has adjourned the hearing of the no-confidence motion case till tomorrow (Tuesday). The apex court had said that it would issue short order on Monday earlier.
The apex court’s remarks came while a larger bench of the Supreme Court – comprising the CJP, Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel, Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail — took up the matter.
During the hearing today, the court rejected a plea by Farooq H. Naek, who is representing the PPP and other opposition parties, to form a full-court bench to hear the matter. Naek had said that the case concerned complex matters of the law and therefore all judges of the apex court should sit on the bench.
Supreme Court had taken suo moto of dissolution of NA
Supreme Court had taken a suo moto notice of the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Qasim Suri’s ruling in which he had dismissed the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan. Mr. Suri in his ruling had termed the no-trust vote as an international conspiracy against the government. Joint opposition had submitted a no-confidence motion against the Premier on March 8. Two main government allies including the MQM-P and Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) had announced to support for the opposition. Clearly, the Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI) led government had lost the majority in the house of 342.
