LAHORE, Aug 27: A four-member Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Javed Iqbal is set to take up an application on Tuesday moved by the Pakistan Lawyers Forum (PLF) for restraining President Pervez Musharraf from getting re-elected from the present assemblies.

On June 24, 2005, then Chief Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui, sitting Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and Justice Fakir Mohammad Khokhar had heard and later dismissed the PLF petitions against the 17th Amendment.

The PLF has added fresh points to the review application filed in the wake of dismissal of the previous petitions. It requests the Supreme Court to restrain Gen Musharraf from misusing the impartial and non-partisan office of the president by trying to enter into a ‘deal’ with any political party.

The president should also be restrained from acting as the head of the ruling PML and attending political meetings, it prays.