Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan, Syed Munawwar Hasan, has welcomed Supreme Court judgement disqualifying Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and described it a bold and land mark decision. He has called upon President Zardari to announce fresh elections along with nominating a new Premier and ensure fair, free and impartial elections under an agreed and caretaker government.
According to the press statement issued by Mansoora JI Ameer said the Supreme Court had finally compelled the corrupt rulers to surrender and expressed the hope that it would keep up its track. Syed Munawwar Hasan said Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani stood disqualified on April 26 with the Supreme Court verdict. However, he had stuck to his office only because the PPP and its allies did not give weight to the Supreme Court judgement. He said the country and the nation now faced a constitutional crisis after the Supreme Court holding Gilani and his cabinet as unconstitutional since April 26. The situation could have been avoided if the PPP had accepted the earlier judgement with an open heart.
The JI Ameer said that throughout its history, the PPP had been in confrontation with the superior judiciary. The present PPP government too continued the same policy and important decisions of the court were not implemented instead, efforts were made to make the court decisions controversial.