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 the course of hearing, Federations counsel argued that the inclusion of article 2-A did not cast positive impact on the Constitution, while Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday said that the said article makes the basic structure of the Constitution. Justice Ramday observed that parliament was there when the judges were sacked on November 3, 2007, and it supported the act. The judge added that it seemed that whenever the judiciary is assailed, the parliament would act as a silent spectator. He stated that the judiciary would be restored only when the public would took to street and die. He questioned how would the government would run if the parliament legislates wrongly and the judiciary is not allowed to review the move. Waseem Sajjad contended that nowhere in the world the basic structure of the constitution could be amended.
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