ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) has rejected government plea about
seeking more time in connection with appointment of chairman NAB
remarking that government is not serious in the matter of this
appointment and only dilatory tactics are being used.
A
2-member bench of SC comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice
Anwar Zahir Jamali took up the case for hearing. Court while rejecting
government plea whereby the court was requested to allow more time in
connection with induction of chairman NAB maintained government should
appoint chairman NAB as soon as possible.
Court said government
was not serious in appointment of chairman NAB. Government made Justice
(Retd) Deedar Hussain case as basis in Chairman NAB extension case. No
review petition was filed on the verdict rendered by the court.
Government
had filed plea requesting the court matter of appointment of chairman
NAB was already pending hearing in the court, therefore, it was not
possible for the government to appoint chairman NAB till the
announcement of decision by SC. Therefore, government be allowed more
time till the decision is announced and chairman NAB case be heard
soon.
It may be recalled that court had allowed time till July
21 for appointment of chairman NAB and prosecutor general and this
period had now expired.
Government had requested SC to allow deputy chairman NAB to appoint prosecutor general. Online
