Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Accountability Irfan Qadir here on Monday dispelled a notion that both the government and parliament were at odds with top judiciary.
“There are some rumors that the government and the Parliament are against the Supreme Court, which are totally baseless and have no reality. The government has desire to see a strong judiciary,” the SAPM said while addressing a news conference here.
“I want to inform the nation that the present government wanted to strengthen judiciary and the supreme court as we have no friction against the courts, instead we are standing with the supreme court.”
However, he said being the mother of all the institutions, parliament was the supreme forum and implementation of its decisions was crucial to run the affairs of the country in effective way.
As regards the appointment of the judges in the Supreme Court, he said, judges should be appointed on the basis of “seniority-cum-fitness”.
He said that all the institutions were bound to follow the constitution of the country. In the mature democracy across the globe, he said, all the institutions were working within their domains enshrined in the constitution.
“We all are bound to work according to the constitution of the country and following the constitution always enhances the respect of all,” he remarked.
Irfan Qadir said that he had expressed his reservations when the government of Yousif Riza Gillani was removed by the court.
He was of the view that Parliament had the power to remove the prime ministers through a no-confidence motion, not any other institutions had such power.
Recalling lifetime disqualification of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in the Panama case, he said it had not been written in the Constitution.
He said Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was also barred from heading the party which was against the law.
Irfan Qadir asserted that as per the 184/3, the supreme court could take the so-moto notice, not the chief justice of the honourable court.
He said that as per the constitution, no one but the Election Commission of Pakistan was empowered to announce the date of elections.
To a question, he said that constitutional courts should be established to hear political cases as such a practice was being followed across the globe.
Constitutional experts including ex-judges, parliamentarians, media, business and other sectors should be included in the constitutional courts, he added.
