Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan refused to work with Sharifuddin Pirzada
PPP MNA Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan
refused to be a member of a committee on constitutional and legal reforms due to
inclusion of Sharifuddin Pirzada in it, saying that his name should never be
equated with the name of a man, who had supported all the four military regimes.
In a letter addressed to the Supreme Court Bar Association President, Malik
Mohammad Qayyum, who nominated his name as one of the committee members,
Barrister Ahsan said that with Sharifuddin Pirzada on it, the committee should
be termed a committee on “constitutional deviations”. Soon after becoming
president of the association, Malik Mohammad Qayyum had established the
committee and included Advisor to the prime minister Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada
and Aitzaz Ahsan in addition to the other members of the committee.
At least thrice (1977, 1981 and 2000), Pirzada has been a party to the
subversion of the judicial establishment by mandating oaths upon judges of the
superior courts that were contrary to the oath that they had taken by their
conscience on their induction as judges, Barrister Ahsan lamented.
Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan Sharifuddin Pirzada
