ISLAMABAD: One of the petitioners seeking disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday an application requesting Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk to constitute a larger bench to hear the matter.

At present a three-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja is hearing the petitions moved by PTI’s central committee leader Ishaq Khan Khakwani, PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Advocate Gohar Nawaz Sindhu.

They have requested the court to order disqualification of the prime minister under Article 62(f) of the Constitution for allegedly falsely stating in a joint session of parliament on Aug 29 that the government had not asked the army to mediate and become a guarantor between the government and the protesting Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek to end the political impasse.

Published in Dawn, October 1st , 2014