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Bilawal Bhutto says formation of the constitutional court is compulsory & his party will ensure its formation come what may

KARACHI, Sep 24 (SABAH): Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has categorically said that the formation of the constitutional court is compulsory and his party will ensure its formation come what may.

Addressing the Sindh High Court Bar Association on Tuesday, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that 19th constitutional amendment was introduced under duress “following a threat from the Supreme Court”. “The judicial reforms would be undertaken in line with the Charter of Democracy (COD) come what may,” he vowed.

Bilawal Bhutto continued that the parliament had replaced the judges’ appointment procedure with a globally recognised law via 18th amendment. “In the United States, entire parliament decides on the appointment of judges that is why martial law is never imposed in the US,” he added.

Terming the ex-premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s death sentence a “judicial murder”, Bilawal Bhutto said that it was “necessary and also our compulsion” to establish a constitutional court so no other prime minister could be executed and justice would be served to the people.

He came down hard on military rulers and said that her mother Benazir Bhutto had seen the military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq’s era in which all political workers went through brutal torture.

The politico recalled: “Shaheed Benazir knew that our system was broken. At that time, [former chief justice] Iftikhar Chaudhry was not a revolutionary but a PCO judge.”

“[…] nor there was any ‘dam wala judge,’” Bilawal said while referring to ex-CJP Mian Saqib Nisar without naming him.

He said that a decision was taken to form a constitutional court citing the need of the people to get justice “when courts were fixing the prices of pakora and tomatoes at that time”.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the implementation of the charter of democracy is vital for streamlining the political governance system in the country. He said every political leader must follow its party’s manifesto.