Following the PML-N-led government’s “failure to fulfil its promise” to ensure equal representation in the top judicial body, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has stated that he chose not to participate in the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), which was reconstituted following the passage of the 26th Constitutional Amendment.
In a casual interview with reporters in Karachi on Thursday, he stated, “I withdrew my name from the [JCP] in protest as the incumbent government did not fulfil the promise regarding equal representation made at the time of the [26th] amendment.”
Bilawal replied that if he had been present at the JCP meeting, all of the current judges of the Sindh High Court would have been nominated to serve on constitutional benches.
