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ISLAMABAD: The government claim to have convinced Fazalur Rehamn in favour of the constitutional package. The govt claims they have achieved the magic number.
The government’s proposed constitutional amendment bill is likely to be tabled in the National Assembly session scheduled to be held on Sunday (today), sources.
They added that the bill was expected to be presented in the lower house of parliament through a supplementary agenda.
The well-placed sources also told Geo News on Saturday that the government, through the constitutional amendment, decided to form constitutional court and amend the Article 63-A of the Constitution — which deals with the defection of the lawmakers.
Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has also echoed the same in the upper house of parliament the same day, saying the “Constitutional Bill” was in line with the provisions of the Charter of Democracy (COD) endorsed by all the political parties including the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
It has been also been proposed that the retirement age of superior judges should be increased by three years.
Currently, Article 179 of the Constitution envisages that a judge of the Supreme Court shall hold office until he attains the age of 65 years, whereas Article 195 of the Constitution says that a judge of a high court shall hold office until he attains the age of 62 years.
Furthermore, the government is also mulling revising the seniority principle in the appointment of the top judge, government’s spokesperson on legal affairs Barrister Aqeel Malik confirmed while speaking on Geo News programme “Naya Pakistan
on Friday.
At present, according to Article 175A of the Constitution, only the senior most judge of the Supreme Court is appointed as the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) on the basis of principle of seniority.
PML-N leaders instructed to vote in favour of constitutional amendment
On the other hand, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Parliamentary Leader in National Assembly Khawaja Asif and Parliamentary Leader in Senate Irfan-ul-Haque Siddiqui have written a letter to members of the respective houses.
They instructed all the PML-N leaders to ensure their attendance in the House and cast their vote in favour of the constitutional amendment as per the party decision.
The parliamentary leaders said it was mandatory for all the members of the parliament to ballot for the constitutional amendment.
