The senior vice president of Insaf Lawyers Forum, Punjab, Gohar Nawaz Sindhu, has moved the Supreme Court seeking disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for lying about army's role of 'arbitrator'. The petitioner pleaded that the PM on the floor of parliament said that the government did not invite the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) to play his role as mediator in the present political impasse in the country.
He stated the ISPR denied the government's version and proved the lie told by the PM and the interior minister to the nation. The lawyer said Article 63 of the Constitution envisaged disqualification of a member of parliament who defamed or ridiculed the army. Therefore, he asked the court to disqualify both PM and the interior minister invoking provisions of Article 63. Earlier, a petition and an intra-court appeal of Sindhu on the same matter had been dismissed by the Lahore High Court.