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PPP: No compromise on Parliament’s right to legislate
Leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition met for a crucial meeting in the presidency on Friday night after the Supreme Court struck down the Contempt of Court Act, which was passed last month to protect Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf from being disqualified for not acting on the court’s order to revive graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
Leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition met for a crucial meeting in the presidency on Friday night after the Supreme Court struck down the Contempt of Court Act, which was passed last month to protect Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf from being disqualified for not acting on the court’s order to revive graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
Following the meeting chaired by Zardari and Ashraf, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the leaders discussed the current situation and expressed their resolve “that the right of the parliament to legislate would be upheld and this right would not be allowed to be compromised no matter what the odds and the cost would be”.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senator Faisal Raza Abidi has said that the decision on the issue of contempt of court case by the Supreme Court of Pakistan was actually a “judicial martial law”.
“Every student of politics knows that parliament is supreme but few people don’t want to accept this political and democratic reality,” the Daily Times quoted Abidi as saying.
Abidi insisted that the PPP always respected the courts and implemented their decisions in letter and spirit.
He also pointed out that his party has been victimised in the past and is being victimised now.
The PPP senator asserted that the Parliament was the supreme institution in a democratic setup, and he could prove the supremacy of parliament with reference to the judiciary.
