Voicing concerns over the lingering crisis involving upcoming Senate elections, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Quaid Altaf Hussain wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan urging a befitting role of the Supreme Court to break the current political imbroglio. Altaf while commenting on horse trading fears and the differences over the procedure in upcoming Senate elections appealed the apex court to play its role and devise a proper method for the polls.
In a statement issued from the party's London Secretariat, he expressed dismay over the current political situation and called upon the apex court to intercede. Altaf asserted, "As the Supreme Court is the guardian of the Constitution, I hereby call upon the Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Nasirul Mulk and his learned companion judges to suo motu, invoking article 184(3) of the Constitution, issue directions under articles 187, 189 and 190 of the Constitution whereby a proper methodology for the Senate elections is declared and if necessary, a commission be appointed under Order 32 of the Supreme Court Rules, whereby members of the Armed Forces, select parliamentarians, lawyers, technocrats and others known in diversified fields, are appointed as members of the commission so as to resolve the present crisis."
Picking apart the potential manoeuvre to introduce an amendment against horse-trading, Altaf was of the view that the situation is bound to further aggravate thanks to the game of numbers if an attempt is made to bring about a Constitutional Amendment. Drawing attention towards the law and order situation in the country, the MQM Quaid said the recent threats and attacks from Daish and Taliban nudged Pakistan into an undesirable state of war.
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