MARDAN: Jahangir Khan Tareen, the estranged PTI leader, has stated that he was not a party to a petition challenging the idea of lifelong disqualification of legislators, and that he was not consulted on the topic.
Tareen told the reporters on Saturday that the Supreme Court Bar Association has submitted the petition. He stated that the lawyers believe that Lawmakers’ lifetime ban is not founded on justice.
He maintained, however, that in this case, the ability to appeal and call witnesses was not afforded. He said that the rule does not grant the right to challenge a court decision, which contradicts the notion of impartial justice.
President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Ahsan Bhoon, has filed a case before the Supreme Court, contesting Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution, which deals with lawmaker disqualification.
Article 62(1)(f), which requires a member of parliament to be “sadiq and ameen” (honest and righteous), is the identical article under which former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified in the Panama Papers case by a five-judge Supreme Court bench on July 28, 2017. Similarly, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen was disqualified under the same rule by a separate bench of the Supreme Court.
Jahangir Tareen, in response to an inquiry, stated that the lawyers’ body did not confer with him on the topic.
“The SCBA president claimed in the petition against lifetime disqualification of politicians that the top court could not undertake the tasks of a trial court under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution.” DNA
