IHC rejects Asif Zardari, Fawad Chaudhry’s disqualification pleas

The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed petitions seeking disqualification of PPP Co-Chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari and Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry.

According to details, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the petitions. The judge said that both the cases were related to the elected representatives. Those who have been elected by people, why the court should interfere in their affair, he wondered. 

The chief justice remarked that every political party had made its own social media trolling team. When a court gives an unfavorable decision against some party, they start trolling against it, he added.

Justice Minallah said that according to your estimates, Pakistan’s courts ranking comes at No 139. But this ranking does not apply on courts only, it’s a ranking of our complete governance system. 

Then the court distributed the copy of courts’ rating among the lawyers. Justice Minallah asked them to read the factors of this rating. He said he did not say that courts were very good but asked the lawyers to have a look at the entire system.