CJP Umar Ata Bandial should immediately step down:  Maulana Fazl

ISLAMABAD, April 08 (SABAH): Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) President and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Ameer Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Saturday that Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Umar Ata Bandial should immediately step down.

Using his Twitter handle, the JUI-F chief said CJP Bandial’s ‘controversial’ decisions had ‘divided’ the respectable institution of Supreme Court of Pakistan. 

The PDM chief said the CJP had brought the Supreme Court and supreme institution parliament face to face. Maulana Fazl said that his (CJP’s) decisions had pushed the state in a crisis-like situation. The only solution to this problem, he said, was resignation of the chief justice. So the CJP should resign without any further delay, he said.

Meanwhile Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan to “get his court in order” or step down and give the post to someone else.