9-member high court docket bench will take up 12-year-old presidential reference on revisiting ZA Bhutto’s trial tomorrow (Tuesday)
- SC to listen to presidential reference towards ZA Bhutto trial on Dec 12.
- Ex-president Zardari had sought high court docket opinion on revisiting trial.
- SC fashioned two-member panel to determine on listening to’s dwell telecast.
Pakistan Peoples Get together (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari Monday moved the Supreme Courtroom of Pakistan in search of a dwell broadcast of the listening to of the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reference tomorrow (Tuesday).
A nine-member bigger apex court docket bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa is about to listen to the the 12-year-old presidential reference on revisiting the controversial dying sentence awarded to the previous prime minister.
The choice to repair the moment case was made beneath Part 2(1) of the Supreme Courtroom (Apply and Process) Act, 2023, by a three-member committee comprising CJP Isa, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Ijazul Ahsan.
Final week, the highest court docket fashioned a two-judge panel — comprising Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar — to determine on the dwell telecast of the stated reference.
The panel will submit its report back to CJP Isa on December 11, which if permitted, could be the second time within the nation’s judicial historical past {that a} case is broadcast dwell.
The event comes as former president Asif Ali Zardari, on April 2, 2011, had approached the apex court docket by way of a presidential reference beneath Article 186 of the Structure to hunt its opinion on revisiting the trial of the PPP founder.
Beforehand, an 11-member bigger bench of the apex court docket, headed by former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, had performed 5 hearings within the presidential reference — whose final listening to was held on November 11, 2022.
Bilawal, in his civil miscellaneous software, has urged the court docket to permit the dwell telecast of the listening to “in order that the entire of Pakistan might hear it”.
A day earlier, the PPP chairman voiced his expectation from the chief justice to “rectify constitutional errors”.
“The entire nation is aware of Quaid-e-Awaam was harmless […] The nation must be knowledgeable who have been the facilitators behind [Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s] homicide,” Bilawal stated throughout a political gathering in Kohat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Sunday.
“We hope that justice could be performed with the historical past,” he added.
— With extra enter from APP