Prime Minister's Adviser on Political and Public Affairs, Rana Sanaullah said on Friday that there is no chance of a crisis if institutions remain within their prescribed boundaries.
Expressing his thoughts on Samaa TV programme "Mere Sawal Absar Alam Ke Sath", Sanaullah said: “The Supreme Court has the authority to interpret the constitution. If the constitution will be rewritten, then there will be the perception at the parliament to stop it.”
He stated: “The decision pertaining to Article 63-A was targeted as a result of which Parvez Elahi became the Punjab chief minister."
“In which article it is written that whatever the Supreme Court will say is all about the constitution,” he said.
Sanaullah said: “It has been said that all the institutions are obliged to implement on the SC’s orders. There is written nowhere else that the parliament is also subordinate to the SC.”
“The seniority does not matter when the chief justice has to be picked up from the High Court,” he added.
“Who else does not say that the judiciary remains on vacation for seven months in a year?”
“Yesterday there came news that one of the people does not work after 11,” he said.
“We want to do the constitutional amendment so that the judicial commission can ask about the performance of the judges. Even we are facing opposition on the argument that the judicial commission should ask about the performance of the judges,” Sanaullah said.
He said: “The judicial commission can appoint and promote the judges. You are not even ready to give it this authority. Is nobody able to ever talk about the judges?
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stalwart said: “One judge wraps up 100 cases in a month, but does not even five.”
Sanaullah stated: “There exists consensus but the entire nation and lawyers on the constitutional amendment.”
“What the time has to do regarding the constitutional amendment. The constitutional amendment should take place if it is fair enough. But if the constitutional amendment is not right, then it should not exist, even after four months,” said the PML-N leader.
He said: “Everybody is agreed on the constitutional court and appointment of judges in connection with the constitutional amendment.”
“Our numbers were incomplete without the JUI-F for the constitutional amendment. The National Assembly would have been summoned after completing the process for the constitutional amendment,” said Sanaullah.
“Maulana Fazlur Rehman had raised the objections when the draft was presented before him. Subsequently, it was thought that there was a need to hold further consultations to table the constitutional amendment,” he added.
“Fazlur Rehman had a right to raise reservations if the talks with him were not held on the constitutional amendment. We were of the view that the matters with Maulana Fazlur Rehman were finalized when the president and prime minister reached there to meet the JUI-F chief.”
“If Fazlur Rehman agrees on four out of the 10 points in the constitutional amendment, then it is better to skip those six points,” he added.
“We should take Maulana Fazlur Rehaman on board to complete the number games. It would not be fair to think about completing the number games without taking him on board,” Rehman stated.
However, the constitutional amendment can also be passed without the votes of Fazlur Rehman.
“39 people can still vote apart from the decision pertaining to Article 63-A,” Sanaullah said.
He maintained: “The people are having reservations on Article 8. There is a need for consensus to take up the matter in line with Article 8.”
