ISALABAD: In a thorough minority ruling on Tuesday, Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa declared that the top court’s July 12 ruling in the issue involving the reserved seats was not legally binding because the review petitions were still pending and had not been scheduled for hearing.
Days prior to the lengthy note, the eight justices of the highest court, in their second clarification, had irritated the top judge by restating that the revision to the Elections Act by parliament does not have a retroactive impact and cannot overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling in the issue of the reserved seats..
In his letter dissenting, the CJP noted the “constitutional violations and illegalities in the majority’s short order of 12 July 2024, and the majority’s detailed judgment of 23 September 2024, the order/clarification of 14 September 2024 and the Clarification of 18 October 2024..” .
In order to guarantee that Pakistan is run in conformity with the Constitution, the CJP hoped that his colleagues in the majority would “reflect and correct their mistakes.”
