ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has told the National Assembly that “one faction of the judiciary was involved in politics and backing the attackers who targeted the corps commander’s house in Lahore on May 9
As NA Speaker Raja Parvaiz Ashraf sat on the chair, Asif asked him to suspend the question-and-answer session and allow discussion on national politics.
“The time has come for Parliament to exercise its constitutional and parliamentary rights. Judges are not serving justice and they are doing politics,” he said on the floor of the lower house of parliament.
He lamented the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers’ attack on the General Headquarters stating a similar attack was carried out by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan before.
The defence minister suggested that parliament should send a reference against the chief justice to the Supreme Judicial Council and play its historical role.
