Islamabad: Supreme Court Of Pakistan Chief Justice Umar Atta Bandial on Friday form a bench to hear a petition with the Supreme Court seeking the issuance of an order to restrain the government from carrying out its declared intention of stopping parliamentarians from taking part in the vote later this month on the no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The CJ of top court has constituted a divisional bench of the SC comprising two Judges while the hearing will be held on Monday.
The SC also issued notice to Supreme Court Bar Association President, Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon.
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) had filed the petition yesterday which sought an order binding National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser to discharge his duties in accordance with the Constitution by putting to vote the no-confidence motion against the prime minister.
Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon, the SCBA president, moved the petition through his counsel Mansoor Usman Awan. The petition was moved against the backdrop of two recent developments — a declaration by PTI that it would assemble “one million people” at Islamabd’s D-Chowk on March 27 and the opposition’s call for a long march on the capital on March 23.
Mr Bhoon said he had filed the petition because he feared that loss of life, liberty and property was inevitable if the respondents were allowed to proceed with their unconstitutional and illegal intentions.
The petition also sought a directive for all state functionaries to act in accordance with the Constitution and also an order restraining them from acting in any manner unwarranted by the Constitution.
