Islamabad:
The Supreme Court has removed the objections of the registrar’s office on a petition filed by the founder of the PTI against the modifications to the official secret law and the army law and ordered the office to attribute a certain number.
A constitutional bench of seven members of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, led by Judge Amicin Khan and including judge Jamal Mandokhail, judge Muhammad Ali Mazhar, judge Hasan Azhar Rizvi, judge Musarrat Hilali, judge Naeem Akhtar Afghan and the Judge Bilal Bilal, Hilali, had heard the case.
The court asked the lawyer for the founder of TGE PTI that why he did not approach the High Court first. “This is a great public interest. Changes affect the fundamental rights of the people,” said lawyer Shoaib Shaheen.
Judge Muhammad Ali Mazhar pointed out that the Supreme Court can no longer hear petitions against article 184/3. “Article 199 will become ineffective if we continue to allow direct petitions, bypassing the high lessons.”
“But this should be decided by the court and not by the registrar’s office that the requests that the court would admit and what must be sent to a high court,” replied Shoaib Shaheen.
The court asked the lawyer to prepare arguments on the authorization of the petition and postponed the hearing for a date to be fixed later.
