LAHORE, Apr 21: Jamaat-e-Islami ameer and MMA president Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that nation does not acknowledge the Supreme Court created by an individual nor accept its decisions. The ruling alliance should not use the present supreme Court for its objectives and instead make amendments in the constitution to bring it in its original shape and to eliminate the amendments forced into it by an individual.

Qazi was commenting on the judgment of the Supreme Court declaring the graduation condition for assembly candidates null and void on Monday.

Qazi stressed that rulers should restore all judges including chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhri and avoid delaying the impeachment of Gen Musharraf.

Qazi reminded that ruling alliance has promised the nation for reversing the unconstitutional measures of Nov 2, 07 and restoration of all sacked judges. He stressed that all the judgments of present supreme court will become controversial after the restoration of chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhri and other judges.

Qazi said his party had appealed the supreme court for the repeal of the graduation condition much earlier but the court did not nullify it at the time when it was needed. He said if this condition had been nullified at that time it would have increased the prestige of the supreme court.

Qazi emphasized that people have no trust over the Supreme Court created after the unconstitutional act of Nov 2, 07 and all sections including lawyers, democratic parties and civil society have not acknowledged it. He said any decision to suit the requirements of an individual will further bring bad name for the Supreme Court. He asked the ruling alliance that it should use constitutional path for making whatever changes it wanted to bring into the system instead of taking support of the controversial Supreme Court. He said all parties had already agreed in the London APC that 17th amendment and LFO should be abolished to bring the constitution in its original shape.

Qazi said Gen Musharraf had put the graduation condition to block the way of religious parties to the parliament and had always used it as a tool to put pressure on them. He said no such condition was there before 2002 and all previous assemblies had worked better than the graduate assembly, while the assembly which made the constitution of Pakistan was also not graduate. He said the role of graduate assembly was no more than a rubber stamp since it had no role in policy making and decision of national importance, whereas the individual used it for ratification of his dictatorial actions. He said there was no difference in the standard and performance of the national assembly before the graduation condition was imposed. He said people have been justified in demanding that all powers of decision and policy making should be in the hands of people's representatives since it is the very purpose for which they are elected and sent to the assemblies.

 
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