Supreme Court declares party eligible for reserved seats | Salman Akram Raja's Analysis
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Supreme Court declares party eligible for reserved seats | Salman Akram Raja's Analysis
Supreme Court declares party eligible for reserved seats | Salman Akram Raja's Analysis
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00:00Let's talk about the government's technical points one by one.
00:04First of all, you were a member of the Sunni Tahrir Council.
00:07How can you get that? You were not a member of it.
00:10If you were, the Sunni Tahrir Council would have got it.
00:12The court has given you the relief that was not even supposed to be yours.
00:15No, it was supposed to be mine.
00:17The objection raised by Mr. Azam Tariq is that this relief was not asked for.
00:22Look, this is a very valid principle in relation to the Supreme Court.
00:27Article 187 states that the Supreme Court has to do complete justice.
00:34When incidents, laws, and regulations come before the Supreme Court,
00:38the Supreme Court does not keep its mouth shut.
00:46It is the duty of the Supreme Court to decide according to the law and regulations.
00:52The real issue here is the people of Pakistan.
00:55The real party to this is the people of Pakistan.
00:57Who did they vote for?
00:59The Supreme Court asked this question again and again.
01:01Sir, they voted for Tehreek-e-Insaf, but Tehreek-e-Insaf did not ask for the relief.
01:04It does not matter.
01:05Isn't there an order for a legal strategy in this?
01:07No, there is no order.
01:08Look, when the candidates for Tehreek-e-Insaf were declared free,
01:13and they joined the Sunni Tahrir Council in three days,
01:17the legal situation was that the Sunni Tahrir Council would ask for seats.
01:22The Supreme Court saw this, understood this,
01:25and came to the conclusion that the PTI candidates,
01:29the successful candidates,
01:31joined the Sunni Tahrir Council only because the decision was made on 13th January
01:36and there is an explanation for it, which was made by the Election Commission.
01:39Therefore, they said that since this was a wrong principle,
01:42therefore, we will only accept the party that the people of Pakistan voted for.
01:48And if these candidates had written in their nomination paper that they were candidates for Tehreek-e-Insaf,
01:54then we will accept them as the winners of Tehreek-e-Insaf.
01:58So, all this confusion that had arisen,
02:01you can say that a bubble had formed,
02:04due to the decisions made on 13th January and the decisions made by the Election Commission,
02:10against whom I even went.
02:12I myself made a request to the Election Commission,
02:14I made a request to the Lahore High Court,
02:16I knocked on the door of the Supreme Court,
02:18that despite the bubble being torn, we are candidates for the PTI.
02:22And I told this to the Supreme Court.
02:24Look, in front of the Supreme Court,
02:26I was presented by Kamal Shauzab,
02:28who is the President of the PTI Women's Wing,
02:30and was a candidate for the PTI,
02:32the list that had been entered,
02:34of the special lists,
02:36his name was included in it.
02:38I also made a request to the PTI,
02:40all the cases were presented in front of the court,
02:42and I requested the court,
02:44that whatever you think is the right decision,
02:46according to the law and the constitution,
02:48do it.
02:50My last day's argument was,
02:52are you bound by pleadings?
02:54That is, what someone asked for, what was requested,
02:56that does not stop you.
02:58Similarly, the argument of a lawyer,
03:00that also does not stop you.
03:02You have to apply the law and the constitution,
03:04and that is what they did.
03:06The voice of the people,
03:08the opinion, the vote,
03:10that was given today.
03:12But there is another technical objection in that.
03:14Many people are calling this judgment 63A Pro Max.
03:16Because of this, they are saying that
03:18when there was a three-day period in the constitution,
03:20how can we do it for 15 days?
03:22And some people,
03:24if they show affiliation with a party,
03:26the Sunni Jihad Council,
03:28then after seven months,
03:30how can they reconfigure it again?
03:32Isn't this a way to rewrite the constitution?
03:34Article 17 of the constitution was ignored
03:36on 13 January.
03:38The decision of 13 January
03:40will be discussed in history in the coming days.
03:42It is not that the decision
03:44will sit somewhere
03:46and we will not talk about it.
03:48That decision is in its place.
03:50Article 17 of the constitution was not applied
03:52in that decision.
03:54After that, the Election Commission
03:56interpreted that decision
03:58and created a situation
04:00that led to an attack on democracy.
04:02This was the opinion of the people.
04:04You ended that opinion.
04:06And you said that all of them are free.
04:08The people of Pakistan did not say that they are free.
04:10They voted for PTI.
04:12We fought the election by putting
04:14Imran Khan's picture.
04:16We wrote PTI and fought the election
04:18on our banners and posters.
04:20The Supreme Court has admitted this fact.
04:22And the mistake that was created,
04:24the dust that was created
04:26due to the decision of 17 January
04:28and its application,
04:30the Supreme Court
04:32and 8 judges
04:34said that we will clean
04:36this dust.
04:38And we will reveal
04:40the real truth.
04:42But this is a one-time provision.
04:44This should never happen again.
04:46The election was held on 8th February.
04:48May God forbid that such an election
04:50happens again.
04:52In the circumstances in which
04:54this election took place
04:56and before the legal and legal
04:58symbols, we were fighting the election
05:00of the National Assembly and the five
05:02provincial assemblies.
05:04These were all circumstances
05:06which were not in accordance with
05:08democracy and the constitution.
05:10But legally, this is a one-time interpretation.
05:12The decision of 13 January is a unique decision.
05:14And the way the election commission
05:16worked after that is a unique
05:18and uniquely wrong matter.
05:20They said that what is the big principle
05:22of the constitution?
05:24The big principle is that the opinion of the people
05:26should be heard.
05:28The big principle is that no party should
05:30get more special sessions than
05:32it should.
05:34If you give more sessions than
05:36it should, then the parliament
05:38becomes unrepresentative.
05:40It is no longer a democratic institution.