Asif proposes NA’s accountability committee against judiciary

Islamabad_Minister for Defence Khawaja Asif said on Wednesday demanded the National Assembly Speaker to constitute a Committee of the Whole to “probe the decisions of higher courts since Justice Munir to give legal cover to constitutional violations”.

Speaking in the National Assembly, the minister said there was unfortunately “a clash of opinion between two constitutional institutions”.

Quoting his own tweet, he said, “The inquest in unethical judicial interventions to destabilise the fountain of democracy and ensure its destruction must start from the Dosso’s Case where the court invented the Doctrine of Necessity to justify all wrongs. It is time Parliament inquires into and hold accountable (even posthumously) those Judges who aided and abetted constitutional violations.”

“A resolution should be drafted in that regard and the Committee of the Whole should be set up.”He said they were not against any institution and “every institution should also not trespass on the domains of others.

The minister said some 51,000 cases were being before the Supreme Court and over 400,000 cases in high courts. The judiciary should decide the pending cases as many people were waiting for justice, he added.