The Lawyers' Foundation for Justice through an intra-court appeal challenged the single bench order of dismissing its petition seeking direction to establish a 'shadow cabinet'. The petitioner through AK Dogar said that in a parliamentary system of government the majority party forms a cabinet.
He pointed out that in British parliamentary system a shadow cabinet is formed and this format is followed by a number of countries having parliamentary system including Canada and Japan. He submitted that the system of shadow cabinet made the roles of opposition effective and they were not cut out from the day-to-day governmental functions.
He said the system of shadow cabinet was the first step towards accountability and to curb corruption. Opposition leader in national assembly Syed Khurshid Shah had also opposed the idea of shadow cabinet. An additional advocate general argued that the government had been performing phenomenally and there was no need of any such cabinet.
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