Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Barrister Gohar on Tuesday declared the 26th amendment illegal and decided not to become part of the parliamentary committee tasked with the appointment of new chief justice after the passage of 26th Constitutional Amendment. "The PTI held intra-party elections more transparently as compared to other parties, even the Supreme Court (SC) accepted our intra-party elections in the verdict of reserved seats," he said while speaking to media outside Election Commission office. Chairman PTI told the media about the hearing of intra-party election case in election commission. "We filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) about the jurisdiction of the ECP in this case, this case is not under the jurisdictions of the ECP.

I hope the issue will be resolved soon as the LHC has barred the ECP to pass any final order in the PTI intra-party election case," he told. "We answered whatever legal questions ECP raised regarding our intraparty elections, whatever documents the ECP asked we provided, it was told in the SC verdict that the MNAs were of the PTI and reserved seats were meant to be ours," he added. "On the floor of the assembly we did not agree on anything, amendments are illegal," he insisted. "In the special committee there was no proposal of the formation of constitutional benches at provincial level, this tweak came out of the blue,” he lamented. Gohar declared the 26th amendment unconstitutional and illegal, and decided to boycott the parliamentary committee to appoint the next chief justice.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan