Cabinet approves 5 questions of law in Zulfikar Bhutto case
ISLAMABAD, April 20 (APP): A special meeting of the Federal Cabinet on Wednesday approved five questions of law to be presented before the Supreme Court of Pakistan for revisiting the case of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.Briefing newsmen here regarding the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr.Firdous Ashiq Awan said that the during the meeting questions of law,in the reference filed by the President under Article 186 of the Constitution in the Supreme Court to revisit the case, were discussed in detail.
The Cabinet, she said, invited Dr. Babar Awan, counsel in the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case and counsel of the President to brief it on legal and constitutional aspects of the reference as well as the proceedings before the Supreme Court.
She said that Babar Awan informed the Cabinet that proceedings of the reference in the Supreme Court were progressing satisfactorily. He presented before the Cabinet the questions of law framed in the reference to be presented before the Supreme Court, Dr Firdous said.
The objective of the reference, Dr. Babar Awan said, was that error of judgment be corrected for statutes and legal history because it was a judicial murder of the Chairman of a premier political party and founder of the country’s Constitution.
She said that Dr. Babar Awan also highlighted the international significance and history of such high profile cases before the Cabinet.
Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said it was the objective of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that the superior judiciary should undo the wrong done to Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto. As far as political victimization of PPP is concerned,the masses undo them by voting PPP to power again and again, she added.