By Our Correspondent
ISLAMABAD : Justice Qazi Faez Isa, senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court, said on Monday that he and the Supreme Court of Pakistan stood with the Constitution.
He made the remarks while addressing a special national constitutional convention at the National Assembly hall to mark the golden jubilee of the Constitution of Pakistan, where he was the only top court judge in attendance.
The Constitution was passed by the National Assembly on April 10, 1973, authenticated by the president on April 10, 1973, and promulgated on August 14, 1973.
The remarks by Justice Isa, who is slated to become the next chief justice of Pakistan in September, come amid a split within the SC, made apparent over the law few weeks over the course of several hearings conducted on holding elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab.
During the speech, Justice Isa expressed his gratitude at being invited, saying that the “other judges were perhaps busy and could not attend”. He, however, stressed that he did not agree with the political matters stated by the earlier speakers.
The spokesperson for the NA secretariat later told Dawn.com that all the top court judges were invited for today’s event but they neither attended, nor gave a reason for it.
At the outset of his speech, Justice Isa clarified that he was not here to make a political speech but to say “on behalf of myself and my institution that we stand with this book (the Constitution).”
