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Pak SC rejects Vienna Convention’s application in establishing Zardari’s immunity | | Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s lawyer has tried to invoke the Vienna Convention to establish the need for granting President Asif Ali Zardari’s immunity from prosecution. Supreme Court Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, however, said
that the Vienna convention provides immunity to diplomats and consular staff,
but not to presidents. The seven –member bench, hearing the contempt case against
Gilani, said a president only enjoys immunity under the Vienna Convention when
he is travelling abroad. According to the Express Tribune, Gilani’ lawyer Aitzaz
Ahsan had earlier stressed that Gilani cannot write the letter until Asif Ali
Zardari is the incumbent president since he enjoys constitutional immunity. Aitzaz
also requested that this case be referred to a larger bench and completed his
arguments on Article 10-A of the Pakistan Constitution. The court, however, observed
that the president’s immunity is not relevant in this regard and has to be invoked
by the president if he wishes to claim it. Justice Nasirul Mulk said the court
has only ordered the prime minister to write a letter to Swiss authorities to
re-open graft cases against National Reconciliation Order (NRO) beneficiaries.
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