SC's decision a correction of 'constitutional error': Irfan Siddiqui
Pakistan
Siddiqui expressed the optimism that Maulana Fazlur Rehman would reach a decision soon.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) parliamentary party leader in the Senate Irfan Siddiqui on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court ruling on the review petition regarding Article 63-A of the Constitution.
It was "a rectification of a major constitutional error, which provides relief not to any political party, but to the constitution itself," he said in an interview with a private channel, according to a press release.
Siddiqui, who is also chairman of the Senate's foreign affairs committee, criticised the earlier verdict of a three-member SC bench given two years ago, alleging that an extra clause was inserted into the Constitution to favour a particular political party in Punjab, with the sole objective of replacing Hamza Shehbaz with Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as the chief minister.
Highlighting the "dangers of judicial overreach", he emphasized that executive and military dictatorships had limitations, but "judicial activism oversteps all boundaries".
Responding to a question, he stressed the importance of support from Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his party's legislators saying that negotiations were underway in that regard.
Political talks were taking place in broad daylight, he added. Siddiqui expressed the optimism that Maulana Fazl would reach a decision soon, and a parliamentary session could be convened within a week or ten days.
