Country needs stability. Conflicts happen, but institutions shouldn’t be attacked: CJP
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa has remarked that the country needs stability, adding that there are conflicts, but institutions should not be attacked. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) should ensure the establishment of the remaining tribunals within a week, he ordered.
A five-member larger bench of the SC headed by CJP Isa heard the appeal of the election commission regarding the formation of election tribunals in Punjab.
At the outset of the hearing, Salman Akram Raja’s lawyer Hamid Khan objected to the chief justice, saying, “My Lord, we have to file an application,” at which Justice Isa said, “You are a senior lawyer and respectable for us. Let us read the order first.”
Hamid Khan said they had an objection to the CJP hearing the case, at which Justice Isa told him to sit down, saying he would be heard later. Hamid Khan then left the courtroom.
