Salman Akram Raja gives inside news regarding constitutional amendment
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00:00And this has been discussed a lot before as well as today.
00:02In today's decision, it has been mentioned that the PTI got what the PTI did not ask for.
00:06It was not a request that the PTI should be given this session.
00:09It was an extreme request that the PTI should be given this session.
00:15If I ask you precisely, because today the Minister of Law has also made this claim,
00:18in this entire proceedings, Mr. Salman Khan, you have obviously been an important part of this entire proceedings,
00:25have you ever requested the court to give this session to the Pakistan Direct Inspector General, which ultimately happened?
00:31Yes, I would like to say that I myself made a request to the PTI that the PTI should be considered as a part of this case.
00:39All the incidents were presented and I requested that in the light of these incidents,
00:44the legal decision that we should get relief from the court, which should be extended, should be done.
00:52And this is our unbiased law.
00:54There are not just one, but hundreds of decisions on this,
00:57that it is the duty of the court to look at the incidents and conditions and make a decision according to the law.
01:03And this case is such?
01:06Yes, look, and this case was not of the PTI or the PTI's MNAs,
01:12it was a matter of the people of Pakistan.
01:14The people of Pakistan had to give them their rights.
01:17All of us were there as representatives of the people of Pakistan.
01:21Therefore, the court had to give such a decision,
01:24by which the votes cast by the people, the opinion of the people could be considered.
01:29So, they made the right decision.
01:31They said that the people who went to the Sunni Tahaat Council,
01:34they were actually members of the PTI.
01:37And they will be considered as part of the PTI.
01:39Because of the wrong decisions made by the election commission,
01:44they were first considered free and then they had to go to the Sunni Tahaat Council.
01:48And did the court accept your appeal when you appealed?
01:52Yes, exactly.
01:54Therefore, the court said that we have presented all the incidents,
01:58why we went to the Sunni Tahaat Council,
02:00our tickets were returned as PTI candidates,
02:03we were considered free,
02:05we went to the election commission against it,
02:08then the election commission rejected our appeal.
02:11All these cases, especially my case,
02:15have been referred to this decision.
02:18And it has been said that these people were trying their best
02:21to accept them as members of the PTI,
02:25to accept them as members of the PTI.
02:28All these people were stopped illegally by the election commission.
02:33Therefore, it was the duty of the Supreme Court
02:36to consider the votes cast by the people of Pakistan.
02:40And as a result of that vote,
02:42the people who were elected by the votes of the supporters of PTI,
02:46they should accept them as members of the PTI
02:48and give special seats to the PTI.
02:50This is the decision.
02:51And what you are talking about,
02:53was this the last stage of the proceedings of this case?
02:58Yes, yes, absolutely.
03:00These are all things.
03:01They have also referred to my request.
03:03And Mr. Atar Manila asked me,
03:05do you have any objection if we give seats to the PTI?
03:09Do you have any objection if we accept you as a member of the PTI?
03:13I said, why would I have any objection?
03:15Of course, you do.
03:16All the incidents have come before you.
03:18The law and the constitution are before you.
03:20You have to make a decision.
03:22It is not that you have to write a prayer
03:24and ask for this relief.
03:26There are hundreds of decisions.
03:27No matter what the prayer is.
03:28No matter what is written in Dadrassi's request.
03:31In such cases,
03:32where the protection of the legal rights of the people is the aim,
03:37it is necessary for the court to make a decision
03:40that is closer to the law and the truth.
03:42Now, it seems that
03:44the minister of law has said that
03:46this case will go into further litigation.
03:48Now, if the government goes to the court again,
03:51it would simply mean that
03:52further time will be spent in the court proceedings.
03:57Look, it doesn't make much difference.
03:59But now their attempt is to amend the law
04:01and change the court itself.
04:03To make the Supreme Court ineffective.
04:05To make a new court,
04:06which they are calling the Federal Constitutional Court.
04:09In that, the prime minister can choose his favorite judge.
04:14First, he can choose the Chief Justice himself.
04:16And then through that Chief Justice,
04:17he can choose other judges.
04:19So, now the intention is that
04:21this court should be turned aside,
04:24which is our Supreme Court.
04:25And a new court should be made,
04:27which is completely in the hands of the government and the powerful.
04:31You have also mentioned this in your speech in a very public way.
04:34And you have said in the name of the Prime Minister,
04:36that they wish to make him the first Chief Justice.
04:38Sir, the question is,
04:39do you agree with the establishment of a constitutional court?
04:42Do you object to this idea?
04:44Or do you think that...
04:45Not at all.
04:46I do not agree at all.
04:47Look, the way this is being done,
04:49the method used at the moment,
04:51I also disagree with the principle.
04:53I think that
04:54there will be only one Supreme Court in a country.
04:56There cannot be two Supreme Courts.
04:58By making a court on the Supreme Court,
05:00it will only increase the delay.
05:03There will be no benefit.
05:04And it is not possible that
05:05half of the cases will go here and half will go there.
05:07There will be a dispute
05:08whether this is a constitutional court or a non-constitutional court.
05:11This is a completely useless desire.
05:13But if we leave it for a moment,
05:16even if we leave it for a moment,
05:18the matter of a constitutional court,
05:20the way the constitutional court is being made at the moment,
05:23that the Chief Justice will be appointed by the Prime Minister,
05:27for his own good.
05:28And after that,
05:29that Chief Justice will appoint other judges.
05:32This is a complete joke.
05:33That you want to make a hand-picked court
05:37which will be a complete puppet.
05:39If, hypothetically,
05:41hypothetically,
05:43if something happens
05:44through which this clarification of yours is done,
05:47that the first Chief Justice will not be Mr. Faisal,
05:50hypothetically,
05:51then you…
05:52It will not make any difference.
05:54Still, you will not support it.
05:55It will not make any difference.
05:56Right.
05:57Because, look,
05:58anyone who wants to appoint a Chief Justice,
06:00will have to be appointed by the Prime Minister.
06:02You have given the power to one individual
06:04to appoint the Chief Justice of this court.
06:07And then you said
06:08that the appointed Chief Justice
06:11will appoint other judges.
06:13So, this is not acceptable at all.
06:15They say, sir…
06:16If they want to do something like this,
06:17they will do it after six months.
06:18At this time,
06:19the purpose of doing it at this time
06:21is only and only
06:22to amend the constitution,
06:23to establish this court,
06:25to ban PTI
06:27and then the reference against PTI
06:29which has to be sent to the court for confirmation,
06:31should be sent to this court.
06:33It should be written in this constitution.