ISLAMABAD:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussainsaid on Sunday that under Article 69, the Supreme Court did not havethe jurisdiction to give a judgment on the ruling of Parliament, as itwas the constitutional power of the Speaker to give the ruling.
Talking to media outside the Supreme Court, he said that PTI lawyersand legal team will also reach the court tomorrow to put forward theirpoint of view. The Speaker National Assembly has given detailedreasons regarding Article 5 in his detailed ruling, said ChaudhryFawad.
He said that for the first time, it was witnessed that the governmentwas celebrating and the Opposition was worried over dissolution of theNational Assembly and the decision to hold fresh elections.
Political parties, he said were never afraid of going to the peopleand the government has decided to go the people for a fresh mandate.
“Political decisions are made by the people, not by the courts. Peoplehave the right to make these decisions,” said Chaudhry Fawad.
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Fawad said that the PTI under the leadership of Imran Khan, waschallenging the Opposition to face it in the elections to be held in90 days. He said that 220 million people of Pakistan would decide whoshould rule the country for next five years.
He said that the former Leader of the Opposition should know that thepeople of Pakistan were neither beggars nor dishonorable, they wereproud people of Pakistan.