Salman Akram Raja gives inside news regarding constitutional amendment

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00:00And this has been discussed a lot before as well as today.

00:02In today's decision, it has been mentioned that the PTI got what the PTI did not ask for.

00:06It was not a request that the PTI should be given this session.

00:09It was an extreme request that the PTI should be given this session.

00:15If I ask you precisely, because today the Minister of Law has also made this claim,

00:18in this entire proceedings, Mr. Salman Khan, you have obviously been an important part of this entire proceedings,

00:25have you ever requested the court to give this session to the Pakistan Direct Inspector General, which ultimately happened?

00:31Yes, I would like to say that I myself made a request to the PTI that the PTI should be considered as a part of this case.

00:39All the incidents were presented and I requested that in the light of these incidents,

00:44the legal decision that we should get relief from the court, which should be extended, should be done.

00:52And this is our unbiased law.

00:54There are not just one, but hundreds of decisions on this,

00:57that it is the duty of the court to look at the incidents and conditions and make a decision according to the law.

01:03And this case is such?

01:06Yes, look, and this case was not of the PTI or the PTI's MNAs,

01:12it was a matter of the people of Pakistan.

01:14The people of Pakistan had to give them their rights.

01:17All of us were there as representatives of the people of Pakistan.

01:21Therefore, the court had to give such a decision,

01:24by which the votes cast by the people, the opinion of the people could be considered.

01:29So, they made the right decision.

01:31They said that the people who went to the Sunni Tahaat Council,

01:34they were actually members of the PTI.

01:37And they will be considered as part of the PTI.

01:39Because of the wrong decisions made by the election commission,

01:44they were first considered free and then they had to go to the Sunni Tahaat Council.

01:48And did the court accept your appeal when you appealed?

01:52Yes, exactly.

01:54Therefore, the court said that we have presented all the incidents,

01:58why we went to the Sunni Tahaat Council,

02:00our tickets were returned as PTI candidates,

02:03we were considered free,

02:05we went to the election commission against it,

02:08then the election commission rejected our appeal.

02:11All these cases, especially my case,

02:15have been referred to this decision.

02:18And it has been said that these people were trying their best

02:21to accept them as members of the PTI,

02:25to accept them as members of the PTI.

02:28All these people were stopped illegally by the election commission.

02:33Therefore, it was the duty of the Supreme Court

02:36to consider the votes cast by the people of Pakistan.

02:40And as a result of that vote,

02:42the people who were elected by the votes of the supporters of PTI,

02:46they should accept them as members of the PTI

02:48and give special seats to the PTI.

02:50This is the decision.

02:51And what you are talking about,

02:53was this the last stage of the proceedings of this case?

02:58Yes, yes, absolutely.

03:00These are all things.

03:01They have also referred to my request.

03:03And Mr. Atar Manila asked me,

03:05do you have any objection if we give seats to the PTI?

03:09Do you have any objection if we accept you as a member of the PTI?

03:13I said, why would I have any objection?

03:15Of course, you do.

03:16All the incidents have come before you.

03:18The law and the constitution are before you.

03:20You have to make a decision.

03:22It is not that you have to write a prayer

03:24and ask for this relief.

03:26There are hundreds of decisions.

03:27No matter what the prayer is.

03:28No matter what is written in Dadrassi's request.

03:31In such cases,

03:32where the protection of the legal rights of the people is the aim,

03:37it is necessary for the court to make a decision

03:40that is closer to the law and the truth.

03:42Now, it seems that

03:44the minister of law has said that

03:46this case will go into further litigation.

03:48Now, if the government goes to the court again,

03:51it would simply mean that

03:52further time will be spent in the court proceedings.

03:57Look, it doesn't make much difference.

03:59But now their attempt is to amend the law

04:01and change the court itself.

04:03To make the Supreme Court ineffective.

04:05To make a new court,

04:06which they are calling the Federal Constitutional Court.

04:09In that, the prime minister can choose his favorite judge.

04:14First, he can choose the Chief Justice himself.

04:16And then through that Chief Justice,

04:17he can choose other judges.

04:19So, now the intention is that

04:21this court should be turned aside,

04:24which is our Supreme Court.

04:25And a new court should be made,

04:27which is completely in the hands of the government and the powerful.

04:31You have also mentioned this in your speech in a very public way.

04:34And you have said in the name of the Prime Minister,

04:36that they wish to make him the first Chief Justice.

04:38Sir, the question is,

04:39do you agree with the establishment of a constitutional court?

04:42Do you object to this idea?

04:44Or do you think that...

04:45Not at all.

04:46I do not agree at all.

04:47Look, the way this is being done,

04:49the method used at the moment,

04:51I also disagree with the principle.

04:53I think that

04:54there will be only one Supreme Court in a country.

04:56There cannot be two Supreme Courts.

04:58By making a court on the Supreme Court,

05:00it will only increase the delay.

05:03There will be no benefit.

05:04And it is not possible that

05:05half of the cases will go here and half will go there.

05:07There will be a dispute

05:08whether this is a constitutional court or a non-constitutional court.

05:11This is a completely useless desire.

05:13But if we leave it for a moment,

05:16even if we leave it for a moment,

05:18the matter of a constitutional court,

05:20the way the constitutional court is being made at the moment,

05:23that the Chief Justice will be appointed by the Prime Minister,

05:27for his own good.

05:28And after that,

05:29that Chief Justice will appoint other judges.

05:32This is a complete joke.

05:33That you want to make a hand-picked court

05:37which will be a complete puppet.

05:39If, hypothetically,

05:41hypothetically,

05:43if something happens

05:44through which this clarification of yours is done,

05:47that the first Chief Justice will not be Mr. Faisal,

05:50hypothetically,

05:51then you…

05:52It will not make any difference.

05:54Still, you will not support it.

05:55It will not make any difference.

05:56Right.

05:57Because, look,

05:58anyone who wants to appoint a Chief Justice,

06:00will have to be appointed by the Prime Minister.

06:02You have given the power to one individual

06:04to appoint the Chief Justice of this court.

06:07And then you said

06:08that the appointed Chief Justice

06:11will appoint other judges.

06:13So, this is not acceptable at all.

06:15They say, sir…

06:16If they want to do something like this,

06:17they will do it after six months.

06:18At this time,

06:19the purpose of doing it at this time

06:21is only and only

06:22to amend the constitution,

06:23to establish this court,

06:25to ban PTI

06:27and then the reference against PTI

06:29which has to be sent to the court for confirmation,

06:31should be sent to this court.

06:33It should be written in this constitution.

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