Staff Report
Islamabad: The Supreme Court formed on Monday a five-member larger bench on a presidential reference seeking its opinion on Article 63-A of the Constitution, which deals with the disqualification of parliamentarians over defection.
Names of the judges who will constitute the bench are yet to be finalised.
The reference was submitted by Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) Khalid Jawed Khan earlier today.
A two-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Munib Akhtar, took up the reference along with a plea filed by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) seeking the top court’s intervention to prevent “anarchy” ahead of the no-trust vote.
At the hearing, the court said a political party that wanted to become a respondent in the reference may file an application.
The court adjourned the hearing till March 24.
