The PML-N Senior Vice President and Chief Organiser, Maryam Nawaz, hailed on Monday the order of two judges of the Supreme Court who questioned the unbridled powers of the top judge of the country on constituting benches, among other things, saying it was a “victory” of PML-N’s narrative about “bench fixing”.
The Sharif family scion was referring to Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail’s order through which they not only raised objections on the unfettered powers of the chief justice of Pakistan on taking suo moto notice but also expressed that making benches by the CJP alone to hear cases was nothing but a “one-man show”.
“Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Mandokhail’s decision is a victory for our narrative about bench fixing,” the PML-N leader said while presiding over a meeting of party’s spokespersons, asking “if the bench-making is not fair, how the decision can be considered fair”.
The term bench-fixing has usually been viewed as match-fixing as often people are able to predict the outcome of cases even before the court rulings in the cases concerned.
During the party spokespersons’ meeting, Maryam directed them to “expose Imran Khan’s facilitators in judiciary with full force,” saying that the alleged violation of the Constitution and the law applied in ex-premier Nawaz Sharif’s cases shall be fully exposed.
“If there is justice, all the evidences coming in favour of Nawaz Sharif should have been enough to level the scales of justice by now,” Maryam said.
During the past few weeks, Maryam and PML-N leaders have been objecting that the scale of justice was not equal for the PML-N and PTI, saying “two standards of justice in one country are not acceptable”.
During the meeting of PML-N spokespersons, Maryam along with party leaders decided that they would bring “unfair and vindictive judgments” against former premier Nawaz Sharif and testimonies that later came in his favour to the public.
Among other decisions, a party statement said that a strategy had been prepared to bring the facts about former premier Imran and his alleged facilitators before the public.
The meeting decided to expose the alleged corruption by the PTI chief and his facilitators.
