Thread on the legal points because of which SC may end Hamza’s short-lived Chief Ministership today - ignore the noise and focus on the relevant legal questions:
1. Article 63-A of the Constitution clearly refers to the direction of the Parliamentary Party. The role of the Party Head is to determine if a member has defected - and that too after providing a show cause notice and opportunity to the member to explain his/her position.
Oct 23, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Thread on majority judgment in the #JusticeQaziFaezIsa case. Read these extracts if you can’t go through all the 224 pages - some very important points have been raised/clarified which will be relevant beyond just this Reference. Starts with concept of ‘Justice’:
Highlights the prayer by the petitioner:
Dec 19, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Now that we appear unanimous in condemning para 66 of the main judgment re Musharraf by J W. Seth, time to read and reflect on pertinent points raised by J Nazar Akbar in his dissenting note - by far the most incisive part of the 169 page document - he shows a mirror to many:
Para 11 - he highlights that it was only in 2010 that the 18th Amendment added the words ‘suspension’ and ‘abeyance’ to the definition of High Treason which till then was restricted to acts of ‘abrogation’ or ‘subversion’
