ISLAMABAD: While the ruling coalition rejected the Supreme Court’s verdict on Punjab chief minister’s election and called it a day of “start of another phase of independence of judiciary”, the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) termed the decision “supremacy of the Constitution” and decided to observe ‘thanksgiving day’ on Wednesday (today).
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders said on Tuesday that the formation of a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial to hear the case was evident of the fact that the apex court’s verdict would become controversial.
PML-N supremo and self-exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif expressed disappointment over the verdict and said in a tweet: “The country has turned into a theatre — salute to three judges.”
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the SC verdict had given a shock to the hopes of people, legal fraternity, petitioners and media for justice. In a tweet after the verdict, he said it was a demand of the reputation of the judiciary and justice that a full court should have been formed. “With the formation of the full court bench, justice would have not only to be done but it would have appeared to be done.”
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