A day after two Supreme Court judges questioned the country’s top judge’s suo motu powers, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned that “history would not forgive us” if parliament did not pass measures to limit the chief justice’s authority.
Speaking to the joint session of parliament, Sharif spoke at length about the Supreme Court’s dissenting opinion written by Justices Mansoor Ali Shah and Jamal Khan Mandokhail, who criticised the Chief Justice’s unrestricted power to create benches of choice to hear various cases and act suo motu (on its own) on any issue.
