Government Again Confronting The Apex Coust As Usual

PPP government never accepted apex court's decisions, whether these may be on NRO Fake Degrees, Bank Scandals or many more. It is its routine to deny the decisions of the courts. Though it apparently issues statements to obey and respect all the verdicts of the court but it never did. The latest confrontation is no exception.
Pakistan People’s Party on Thursday confronted Supreme Court openly by challenging the apex court’s decision of forming a commission to investigate Memogate scandal, saying the court has crossed its institutional limits through the move they perceived as part of efforts to end its rule.
At a hurriedly-called press conference, former law minister and PPP central leader Babar Awan also fired political shots at the PML-N and its chief Nawaz Sharif for moving the memo petition in the SC, and vowed that government would not surrender the supremacy of the parliament and the authority of the executive. Flanked by Religious Affairs Minister Khurshid Shah, Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan and PPP Information Secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira, Babar declared: “We will not allow the supremacy of the parliament to be wiped out.“
Ruling out the possibility of any caretaker setup, Babar said that the authority of the parliament had been undermined by constituting the commission as Parliamentary Committee on National Security, a panel having representation of all the political parties in both the houses of the parliament, was already investigating the memo issue. He also said that the integrity of the committee chairman Raza Rabbani was also above board and there was no question on it.
He categorically said that the only one limb of the state, the executive, had the authority to constitute any commission while the apex court ignoring the fact constituted the commission without hearing the federation. Implicitly condemning the apex court decision, he stressed that no body could be given the authority to govern Pakistan other than those who have been given mandate by the people and no one should have the wishful thinking that current democratic setup could be rolled through threats.
He also criticised courts for issuing stay orders in the favour of PML-N leadership and providing them relief. “The biggest parliamentary party of the federation remained a victim in the past and today as well,” he further said. “It is the history of Pakistan that PPP never got justice from the courts and it is also a history that the rulers of Punjab were never denied to provide a relief by these courts,” he said adding that the founder of the party, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could neither get justice not lawyers to plead his case.
It has become clear ‘today’ as to who wanted disintegration of the country. “Today a decision was announced without hearing the point of view of the federation,” Awan said. He alleged that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif by calling President (Zardari) a traitor had tried to play the same game that led to (the creation of) Bangladesh. Nawaz Sharif has attacked the democracy through getting the cover of the other state institutions. “Mian Nawaz Sharif has played the ‘act one’ of Bangladesh Model,” he said.
He also blamed Nawaz for committing contempt of court when he had attacked SC during his second tenure as prime minister. “Nawaz Sharif called an elected President of Pakistan (Asif Ali Zardari) a traitor but never passed such remarks against a dictator, former president Pervez Musharraf,” he remarked. He said Nawaz never moved petition against the October 12, 1999 step of a military dictator to get him declared a traitor. Babar also held Nawaz Sharif responsible for creating an atmosphere of confrontation between the state institutions.
About Husain Haqqani, former ambassador of Pakistan to US, he said that it was the decision of the government that he would not leave the country until the completion of investigations of the memo gate scandal.
Babar also questioned integrity of Tariq Khosa, the head of the commission on memo issue, saying that one of his brothers, Nasir Khosa, was Punjab chief secretary and very close to PML-N Punjab government and an other of his brother, Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, was judge of the Supreme Court. He said that Tariq Khosa was a biased person as the government did not gave him his desired posting before his retirement and that bias had penetrated into Khosa family.