The Lahore High Court (LHC) has reserved its judgement on a petition
challenging the pardoning of Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik by
President Asif Ali Zardari.
The court was hearing a petition by Barrister Farooq Hassan, who had pleaded
that the pardoning of the Interior Minister by Zardari was unconstitutional, as
Malik could have knocked the door of the Supreme Court against the
punishment.
A three-member bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC), headed by Chief Justice
Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, reserved the judgement on the petition, The Nation
reports.
Chaudhry said that punishing or pardoning the accused was the prerogative of
courts and it was not the president's job. ANI
