Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the special assistant said that constitutional experts including former judges, parliamentarians, media, business and other sectors should be included in the constitutional courts.
Irfan Qadir pointed out that the supremacy of law and constitution was of vital importance in the best interest of the country. “No one could be allowed to rewrite the constitution as it is a sacred document,” it added.The PM’s aide also dispelled a notion that both the government and the Parliament were at odds with the top judiciary.
Non-controversial” members of parliament, mediapersons, lawyers, judges and people from different walks of life should be appointed to the constitutional court.
“Institutions are bound to follow the Constitution. No one person can control the country. We have to make the Constitution supreme,” Qadir emphasised.
He pointed out that institutions stayed within their domain of authority in every democratic country. “The Supreme Court has no need to build a dam or railways or to operate the Pakistan International Airlines.”
The SAPM referred to Supreme Court verdicts that removed two premiers — Nawaz Sharif and Yousuf Raza Gilani — from office. “There was a time political engineering was done in Pakistan. There is no mention of lifetime disqualification in the Constitution [yet] Nawaz Sharif was disqualified for life.”
Irfan Qadir said he had expressed his reservations when the apex court removed the government of Yousaf Raza Gillani.
He was of the view that the Parliament had the power to remove the prime ministers through a no-confidence motion, while no other institution had such power.
Recalling the lifetime disqualification of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in the Panama Papers case, he said it had not been written in the Constitution. Nawaz Sharif, he added, was also barred from heading the party which was against the law.
Irfan Qadir asserted that as per Article 184/3, the Supreme Court could take the so-moto notice, not the chief justice of the honourable court.
He said as per the Constitution, no one but the Election Commission of Pakistan was empowered to announce the date of elections.
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