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Summary Supreme Court of Pakistan Wednesday rejected AGs for a larger bench to hear review petition.
Hearing the government’s petition against the court’s directives given to Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to write a letter to the Swiss authorities, the Supreme Court Wednesday denied the Attorney General’s request to form a larger bench.Earlier Attorney General Irfan Qadir had said that the Supreme Court’s decision of striking down the Contempt of Court Act 2012 and the government’s review petition in the NRO implementation case were interconnected and a larger bench be formed to hear the cases.Justice Asif Saeed Khosa snubbed the Attorney General’s request and said that the hearing of the review petition does not have anything to do with the NRO implementation case.The Attorney General also requested the court to reschedule the hearing of the review petition after Eid, as the judge who was replaced in the bench will be available after Eid. However, this request was also denied by the bench.Arguing before the bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, AG Qadir said that a few actions do not come under the domain of the prime minister and writing a letter to the Swiss authorities is one such action.He said the court should not give directives to PM Ashraf which he cannot comply with.The Supreme Court had directed Ashraf to write a letter to the Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
