ISLAMABAD – Over the crucial issue of COAS General Qamar Bajwa tenureextension suspension, PM Imran Khan takes emergency measures.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has summoned an emergency cabinet meeting hoursafter the Supreme Court suspended the notification granting General Bajwaan extension as army chief.
The cabinet will be required to approve the summary granting the army chiefanother extension for three years.
The development comes a few hours after the Supreme Court of Pakistansuspended the notification granting General Bajwa an extension of threeyears as army chief.
Chief Justice Khosa rejected the application today (Tuesday) and took up apetition challenging the notification issued by the prime minister inpublic interest under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution, turning thepetition into a suo motu notice.
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“The prime minister does not have the power to extend the tenure of thearmy chief,” the chief justice had remarked.
To this, the attorney general had told the court, “Army chief’s tenure wasextended after the president’s approval.”
