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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Supreme Court moved for disqualification of President, PM Gilani


ISLAMABAD: A petition, seeking disqualification of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, was filed Monday in the Supreme Court.

Petitioner Habib Wahab Al-Khairi, a local advocate took the plea that President Asif Ali Zardari and PM had committed contempt of court by not complying with the court’s orders, therefore, they be removed from their offices and new elections be held in the country.
The Petition has been filed under article 184/3 of the constitution making President Asif Ali Zardari, PM, Babar Awan, Farooq Awan, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Syed Khurshid Shah, federation of Pakistan, Chief of Army Staff, Gen Parvez Ashfaq Kayani, DG ISI, Election Commission of Pakistan and speaker National Assembly respondents.
Through the petition the court was requested that money looted from the country and transferred to off shore accounts be brought back and those involved in this plundering of public wealth be brought to justice. President Asif Ali Zardari be directed to bring all his wealth stashed in off shore accounts to Pakistan and hand over the ownership documents of palace owned by him in France to government of Pakistan, he prayed.
He further prayed the court to remove President and PM from their offices and restrain them from working in Aiwan-e-Sadr and Prime Minister house. The parliamentarians holding fake degrees be also declared disqualified, he further requested. Online