After the resignation of General(R) Parveez Musharaf, all parties are now engaged in solving the judiciary crisis. Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, leader of Pakistan Muslim League (N), said today that all the judges will be restored in the next week on 27th of August 2008.
Judges are likely to be restored through a resolution. Members of the Parliament are required to pass this resolution.
However, today, Muttahida Quami Movement party announced that they will not support this resolution. Muttahida Quami Movement and the Pakistan Peoples Party have a coalition government in Sindh assembly.
Member of MQM, Haider Abbas Razvi stated that: “We do not accept any judges to be restored who have taken oath under PCO”. He further stated that: “If any resolution for the restoration of judges is presented in the parliament then we will not support that resolution”.
In a press conference, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif stated that the judges should have been restored within the 24 hours after the resignation of General(R) Parveez Musharaf. He further said that, his party will now wait for the resolution but the judges should now be restored on Wednesday, 27th of August 2008.
In the same press conference, Leader of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), said that the judges are likely to be restored in the next week, but there can be a day delay in the dead line for restoration of the judges. The new dead line for the restoration of judges is now Wednesday, 27th of August 2008.