Foreign Minister and Pakistan People’s Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has warned of deepening ‘constitutional crisis’ if larger bench is not constituted to hear polls delay case, fearing that it would lead to martial law in the country.
Talking to journalists in Larkana, the PPP chairman said that what is happening on the matter of elections was in front of the nation and the country, urging the judiciary to ask three judges about it, reports a news channel.
Bilawal noted that the criticism of higher judiciary by the judges is historical, saying that the fellow judges have also expressed ‘lack of confidence’ on the three-member bench, hearing a petition by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf against the postponement of Punjab elections.
The foreign minister urged Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to constitute a larger bench as per the Constitution, saying that judges who were caught consulting with the opposition – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf – should not be part of the bench.
He feared that if larger bench would not be formed then a ‘constitutional crisis’ will be emerged, which will lead towards ‘martial law’ in the country.
