PTI refuses to sit in committee to select next CJP

Islamabad: Calling the 26th amendment illegal, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar said that his party has decided not to become part of the parliamentary committee formed to select the new chief justice.

Speaking to media on Monday, barrister Gohar said that 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.

"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.