SC not entitled to scrap Constitutional clauses: Govts counsel tells court

The hearing of petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the 18th Amendment has been resumed, Dunya News reported on Monday. A larger bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry is hearing the case. During th4e course of hearing, Justice Tariq Pervez observed that the people took to streets to get the judges restored and not the parliament. Governments counsel Waseem Sajjad argued that in his speech on August 11, 9147, Quaid-i-Azam stressed upon the sovereignty of the parliament. The CJ remarked that Quiad also called for elimination of corruption and jobbery, and posed a question that has the government done away with these menaces. The Chief Justice added that all the problems facing the country emerged due to non-implementation of Quaids sayings. Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday said that he could live sans freedom but not in an environment full of corruption.Waseem Sajjad contended that judiciary is the creation of Constitution and thus it is not authorized to scrap any of its clause.