Pakistan Today (Lahore)

PTI to resist all attempts to extend CJP’S tenure: Raoof

- ISLAMABAD STAFF REPORT

Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) Central Informatio­n Secretary Raoof Hasan made it clear that PTI would strongly resist any act violative to the set pattern of judges’ promotion to unduly facilitate Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Qazi Isa, as the current mandate thieves government was seemingly planning to extend his tenure for three more years.

Addressing a press conference along with former Gilgit-baltistan Khalid Khursheed and senior lawyer Naeem Panjutha here on Monday, he said that the current government was hell-bent on destroying state institutio­ns and said that reports were surfing that the fake government was planning to table a bill seeking extension in the tenure of the incumbent CJP, which, he said that PTI would not allow to change the set rule come what may.

Raoof stated that Qazi Faiz Isa was playing a role of a facilitato­r to the government and powerful circles, as he could only see the derelictio­n of justices being done 40 years ago but did not see the injustices and fascism facing the PTI and the constituti­onal violation in the country; hence legislatio­n would likely to be done to make him chief justice for a fixed tenure.

He vowed that the current mandate thieves government was infringing the constituti­on and the PTI would not leave no stone unturned to protect the constituti­on and supremacy of law.

He said that Bushra Bibi, a wife of Imran Khan, was not being given justice from the country’s judicial system, which was virtually paralyzed, because the judges themselves were seeking justice in the country.

“Today the judge said that he will pronounce the verdict in the iddat case, but public prosecutor Rizwan Abbasi, popularly known as Tout lawyer, who virtually abscond from the last two hearings, reached the court only to threaten the judge,” he added.

Raoof stated that Rizwan sought four weeks to complete his arguments and walked off the rostrum during the hearing and the judge accepted his plea and adjured the hearing till April 24 instead of holding him accountabl­e for contempt of court.

Rauf Hasan says that this country has been ruthlessly looted for 76 years and even today the same plunders were still in power, destroying the country legally, constituti­onally and morally.

He strongly dubbed the foreign office’s statement regarding Iran’s retaliator­y action against Israel as very weak, vague, ineffectiv­e and inadequate, as it could not dare to even mention only Israel’s name in its statement.

He went on to say that a shameful attempt was made to appease the foreign masters through half-hearted condemnati­on of the aggression of the global rogue element against Palestinia­ns.

He said that strongly condemned the fake government for its failure to effectivel­y represente­d national aspiration­s on the overall situation in the Middle East and the Iranisrael

conflict despite ruthlessly killing around 35,000 Palestinia­ns including women and children.

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