Supreme Court larger bench to resume hearing in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reference tomorrow
PPP has already submitted its written feedback to apex court docket together with some extra paperwork
- CJP Qazi Faez Isa will head nine-member prime court docket bench.
- Earlier, Justice Mansoor raised questions over reference.
- Court proceedings of the reference have been broadcast stay.
A nine-member larger bench of the Supreme Court on Monday (tomorrow) would hear a presidential reference pertaining to the sentence of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto — the nation’s first elected chief govt and founding father of the nuclear programme.
The apex court docket larger bench — led by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa and comprising Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi and Justice Musarrat Hilali — would resume hearing the presidential reference in search of to revisit the 1979 “controversial” dying sentence awarded to the PPP founder.
Bhutto was hanged to dying on April 4, 1979, in the Rawalpindi district jail in a homicide case. His celebration, nonetheless, termed the capital punishment to Bhutto as “judicial murder”.
Former president Asif Ali Zardari, on April 2, 2011, approached the apex court docket by a presidential reference underneath Article 186 of the Constitution to search its opinion on revisiting the trial of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founder.
It is pertinent to point out right here that Bhutto served because the nation’s international minister from 1963 to 1966. He additionally served as president of the nation from 1971 to 1973 (nearly a 20-month interval) and as premier from 1973 to 1977.
The PPP has already submitted its written feedback to the apex court docket final day together with some extra paperwork together with transcripts and video recordings of varied interviews.
During the earlier hearing on December 12, 2023, Justice Mansoor raised questions over the presidential reference.
The SC choose sought help in figuring out the questions of legislation, observing that the court docket had already dismissed the attraction towards its verdict which had additionally achieved the finality.
“The Supreme Court can’t hear another appeal on the matter. How can we rehear the matter that had been closed?”
The court docket proceedings of the reference have been broadcast stay on the official web site and the YouTube channel of the Supreme Court.
— Additional enter from APP.
