report in Daily Times, Oct 23, 2022
Making a veiled reference to the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification by Supreme Court in 2017, Justice Qazi Faez Isa Saturday said a prime minister was declared unfit for any public office because he refused to take a salary from his son, a private TV channel reported.
“I will not comment on the decision, but it reads that: You (Nawaz Sharif) did not declare the salary you were to receive. By not declaring that salary, you have misrepresented the facts before the court that’s why you are not a good Muslim,” Isa quoted the text of that verdict while speaking at 4th Asma Jehangir Conference.
Summarising the country’s turbulent democratic history punctuated by occasional military interventions, Justice Isa said the first attack on democracy was perpetrated by a bureaucrat Ghulam Mohammad.
“The constitution clearly lays down the distribution of authority for different institutions and the judiciary is one of them,” he said.
The SC judge said Bhutto was tried by a civil court, not a military court.
“I was on the bench that took up the case of establishment of military courts.” “I was the most junior judge and a part of the minority decision.” “Pakistan needs both judiciary and executive and it also needs the military as a part of the executive; however, what it needs the most is a [democratic] peoples-elected government.”…….
https://dailytimes.com.pk/1016388/a-pm-was-disqualified-for-not-taking-salary/
