Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial has said that there wereseveral flaws in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law as it was perlaw to detain anyone for 90 days just on the basis of the accusation.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Umar AtaBandial and including Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Ijazul Ahsan,heard the PTI’s petition against the recent amendments to the NationalAccountability Ordinance (NAO).
During the hearing, the apex court questioned the PTI to clear its stanceon whether keeping the armed forces out of the domain of the accountabilitylaw was a democratic act and how despite being elected seeking decisionsthrough street power instead of parliament served democracy.
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah said that even judges were not out of the NAB lawsphere.
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While giving an argument, Khawaja Haris – the lawyer for petitioner ImranKhan – said that the Supreme Court had declared amendments null and void inthe Asfandyar Wali case. On that Justice Shah said that in the AsfandyarWali case, the court had struck down the law because it was in violation ofhuman rights.
Later the bench adjourned further hearing until Tuesday (today).
