Landmark SC Verdict
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Dawn, Pakistan, Saturday, 01 Aug, 2009
• All Dogar actions, except presidential oath, declared illegal • IHC ceases to exist • Verdict leaves Musharraf unscathed • Govt asked to refer NRO to parliament
ISLAMABAD, July 31: In what has been billed as a verdict that may change the course of the country’s political and judicial history, the Supreme Court on Friday denounced successive military takeovers over the past four decades and their endorsement by the superior judiciary and then went ahead to declare Gen Pervez Musharraf’s Emergency Order of Nov 3, 2007, and most of the actions taken under it, including the appointment of over 100 superior court judges, as illegal and unconstitutional.
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• All Dogar actions, except presidential oath, declared illegal • IHC ceases to exist • Verdict leaves Musharraf unscathed • Govt asked to refer NRO to parliament
ISLAMABAD, July 31: In what has been billed as a verdict that may change the course of the country’s political and judicial history, the Supreme Court on Friday denounced successive military takeovers over the past four decades and their endorsement by the superior judiciary and then went ahead to declare Gen Pervez Musharraf’s Emergency Order of Nov 3, 2007, and most of the actions taken under it, including the appointment of over 100 superior court judges, as illegal and unconstitutional.
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Labels: Governance, Judiciary, Laws, Politics, Supreme Court of Pakistan
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