Law Minster says legislation is prerogative of parliament

LAHORE – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Aitzaz Ahsan on Saturday said if Prime MInister Shehbaz Sharif did not allow election in Punjab on May 14, he would stand disqualified.

Addressing a round table conference of lawyers and jurists, he said election in Punjab would be held on May 14 at every cost adding that anyone violating the Supreme Court’s (SC) order, directing the elections in Punjab on May 14, would be disqualified.

He went on to say that the country was witnessing a historic conflict between the parliament and the judiciary adding that political parties were at daggers drawn to each other right now. “We need to think whether the constitution reigns supreme or not,” he added.

“The constitution binds elections within 90 days [of the dissolution of assemblies],” he said. He added that our country was reeling under debt.

Mr Ahsan said that the verdict issued by the apex court was final adding that PM Shehbaz and his brother Nawaz Sharif said they rejected the bench hearing elections’ case. “I have been saying since day one that the court’s order needs to be followed,” he added
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Federal Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said on Saturday that the parliament would not give its right to any other institution.

Addressing at the Punjab Bar Council, he said efforts to create schism in the lawyer community would go in vain while mentioning the brilliant efforts of the PBC for the betterment of the legal society.

He said the passage of the Supreme Court (practice and procedure bill) was a longawaited demand while adding only the parliament had the privilege to make and amend laws and no institution should intervene in its domain.