The Supreme Court will conduct a preliminary hearing on Monday (today) over the petitions filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) to seek disqualification of prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. A bench comprising Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Dost Muhammad Khan has been formed to take up these petitions.
After dismissal of his plea by Lahore High Court (LHC), the PTI Lawyers Forum's Gohar Nawaz Sindhu filed a petition on September 20 in the Lahore Registry of the Supreme Court, urging the disqualification of the prime minster and the interior minister.
Gohar took plea that both the parliamentarians' membership is questionable under the Articles 62 and 63 of Constitution, as they allegedly made false statements on the floor of the house about the role of Army on the current political impasse.
Likewise, the PTI leader and former federal minister Ishaq Khan Khakwani has also filed a petition through his counsel Irfan Qadir, urging the court to disqualify Prime Minister Sharif for allegedly making a false statement in the National Assembly.
On September 26, the Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk overruled objections raised by the apex court's Registrar office on the Khakwani's petition and asked the concerned branch to fix the case for hearing.
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