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The News International, Pakistan, Friday, July 10, 2009
In a flurry of activity the government, by issuing a Presidential Ordinance (The Petroleum Development Levy Ordinance 2009) has trumped the decision by the Supreme Court to suspend the carbon surcharge subject to review. Petrol and diesel prices rose by 10 and 14 rupees respectively amid confusion on the forecourts of the nations' filling stations. The Supreme Court, sitting on Thursday morning decided to adjourn its hearing on the matter for four weeks – the Presidential Ordinance runs for 120 days, or a little over seventeen weeks - and the bizarre world of political life in Pakistan lurches another couple of steps along the broken road. Commentators and analysts were quickly at work, and mostly of the opinion that the government had done itself no favours - the Supreme Court may have overreached itself by trying to determine policy rather than ruling on its legitimacy; and the chief justice, whether he was right or wrong (in law) in his ruling had caught the zeitgeist and with it popular support. Government was quickly portrayed as 'ruling by ordinance' via a tight feudal cabal centred on the presidency. The government was also being perceived as having driven a coach-and-horses through parliament and it's function as the apex legislative body and the opposition; in the form of the PML-N, was crying 'foul' despite having voted for the budget alongside the government on the 26th June.
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