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Pak NA Speaker tells SC she has absolute power to decide on Gilani's fate | Pakistan National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, in her reply to the Supreme Court, has contended that she has absolute power to decide the matter regarding the disqualification or qualification of any lawmaker after the
passage of the 18th Amendment. "18th Amendment is very important and clearly gives
the power to the speaker or as the case may be to the chairman, that they can
reject the reference if they come to the conclusion that no question of disqualification
of a member from being a member has arisen," the Daily Times quoted Mirza, as
saying in her statement. A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, is hearing petitions against the speaker's ruling
regarding disqualification of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the contempt
of court case. Defending her May 24 ruling on the issue of Gilani's conviction
in the contempt of court case, Mirza said her ruling on any matter could not be
challenged in the court and the power of the speaker was not parallel or under
the apex court. "The powers vested in the speaker are not parallel or equivalent
to the Supreme Court hence any decision/ruling given by the speaker is not tantamount
to interference or setting aside any verdict of the apex court, especially when
the ruling is the result of an independent exercise of powers vested in the speaker
by the constitution without having been influenced by extraneous circumstances,"
she said. She raised objections on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan,
PML-N leader Khawaja Asif and other petitioners, saying that no fundamental right
of the petitioners was infringed due to her ruling, therefore all the petitions
should be rejected. "The office of the speaker demands the highest respect for
other organs of the state and functionaries of the government," she maintained.
Mirza said she did not transgress the powers of the judiciary, but travelled on
the constitutional track. "The charge framed by the honourable court nowhere evinced
that Mr Yousuf Raza Gilani ridiculed or defamed the Supreme Court," she added. |
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