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Summary Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has constituted a full court to hear NRO review petitions.
The hearing will start on April 11. Earlier, the Supreme Court had declared the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) as null and void against which the federal government had filed a review petition. Former attorney general Malik Qayyum, former NAB chairman Naveedul Hassan, Prosecutor General Dr Danishwar Malik and Additional Prosecutor General Abdul Baseer filed separate petitions against the SC verdict.In the earlier hearing of these petitions, the federal government had acquired the services of advocate Kamal Azfar and then Sardar Latif Khosa became government’s lawyer after resigning from the post of advisor to the prime minister. Now, the government will get the services of a new lawyer after the appointment of Khosa as the Punjab governor.The full court of the Supreme Court under Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will hear the petitions. Cases were reopened against the politicians, bureaucrats and others who had benefitted from the NRO. The government didn’t open a case against President Asif Ali Zardari on the grounds of immunity being the president of the country.
