**Malik Riaz tenders unconditional apology
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ISLAMABAD: Business tycoon Malik Riaz, accused of contempt of court, tendered an unconditional apology in his reply submitted to the Supreme Court Wednesday, Geo News reported.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Shakirullah Jan resumed hearing of the Malik Riaz contempt case today.
The reply was submitted in the Supreme Court on behalf of Riaz by his counsel Dr Basit. In his reply Malik Riaz said he did whatever he could during the movement for the restoration of the judiciary, adding that the aim of his press conference was not to criticise the chief justice.
Riaz further said in his reply that the press conference was aimed at exposing Arsalan Iftikhar and that he was sorry if it in anyway impeded in the process of dispensation of justice.
His press conference was supposed to be the first part of a long series of revelations. His ‘conscience’ perhaps cut it short. The matter of fact is that the superior judiciary has become a punching bag for all to train at their leisure.
^^ with blames on Establishment and Army to not to let the elected govt function properly going out of market, SC is the new scape got they have come up with... every failure in the country is blamed on SC... even if someone got caught with his hand in the jar, it is SC's fault saying why were they looking!
A few more PML(N) members suspended then we see what your pir murshad, junior amirul-moninin say.
The irony of the fact is that this CJ has interfered with every affair of the present government, same CJ and other judges become eunuchs when dictator was ruling. Now one such eunuch is talking after a long time departure of the dictator forgetting that they were the same who took oath under PCO to save their jobs and uphold the illegal government of dictator.
ISLAMABAD, July 3: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court suspended on Tuesday the membership of MNA Jameel Malik of PML-N for holding dual nationality and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry who headed the bench categorically stated that nobody was above the law.
“If the chief justice and prime minister can be put on trial there is no exception for anyone,” he said while responding to remarks made by Mr Malik’s counsel that the case had put the legislature on trial.
The MNA had conceded before the court that he also held Dutch nationality.
Justice Jawwad S. Khwaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain are the other two judges on the bench hearing the case relating to legislators holding dual nationality.
The chief justice said the court had to focus on public interest, regardless of the number of lawmakers holding dual nationality.
When Anwar Mansoor Khan, the counsel for Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik, pointed out that former prime minister Shaukat Aziz also held dual nationality, the chief justice remarked: “Why do you show an American businessman the way to come to Pakistan and become the prime minister?”
Justice Khwaja said the court would issue a notice to Mr Aziz and former military ruler Pervez Musharraf too if a petition was filed.
The counsel argued that the Supreme Court was not the forum where his client should present documents to prove his innocence because it was the exclusive jurisdiction of parliament, the National Assembly speaker, chairman of Senate and speakers of the provincial assemblies.
He also argued that the onus was on the petitioner to prove his claim about any lawmakers holding dual nationality.
The chief justice said it was the domain of the court to interpret the Constitution and it was for parliament to introduce amendments to it.
The irony of the fact is that this CJ has interfered with every affair of the present government, same CJ and other judges become eunuchs when dictator was ruling. Now one such eunuch is talking after a long time departure of the dictator forgetting that they were the same who took oath under PCO to save their jobs and uphold the illegal government of dictator
Instead of making Pervaiz Elahi deputy PM, PPP should have made him chief justice of Pakistan, it would have been a panacea for the PPP and for Pakistan as well. And the moral of the story would have been: ...and they lived happily ever after :)
It is PPPs sham-e-Ghareeban… if they suspended they cry, if others get punished PPP walas cry harder… you cannot win from them… btw have anyone seen any leader popular in PPP who can talk
