Re: Dubai Declaration
- Maintain their coalition govt.
- Additional time-frame to restore the judges.
- Constitutional package, rather than simple resolution, to effect restoration of judges.
Makes sense. As was discussed in this forum for the last few days, there is no way NS will part ways from PPP at this time, and risk losing Punjab. Plus these legal issues, take time to sort through.
Listening to many lawyers on Geo over the last 2 days, it seems there is a basic disagreement. Some top-notch lawyers (Pirzada, Khalid Anwar etc) think that there is no easy way to dispose off current judges. Some other lawyers think that since the 7-panel SC bench had ruled against the Nov 2 order (before another bench ruled that out as well), so any thing done after that is "irregular", therefore getting rid of current judges is relitively straightforward, and old judges can be brought back right away.
Politics aside, this is an immensly thorny legal issue because the ultimate arbitrator in any legal case is the very body (Supreme Court) which is at the center of this case.
Shabash hai Zardari pe, that he only realized 3 days before the so-called "deadline" that the issue is not so straight forward. NS will do well, not to get into this ugly game of reverse counting and deadlines etc. Not everything is a plate of halwa that has to be eaten very quickly. Think and then commit.