A Critical Analysis of Changing Verdicts of the Supreme Court of Pakistan About The Dissolution of Assemblies From 1990-2000
Keywords:
Justice, Supreme Court, Impartiality, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif Dissolution, DecisionsAbstract
The objective of this article is to inspect the role of the superior judiciary in Pakistan. The main focus is on the provocative role of the judiciary during the period 1988-1999. It is assumed that the judicial system of Pakistan was established keeping in view the United Kingdom’s system of judiciary. The independence of the judiciary was guaranteed in all the constitutions of Pakistan in 1956, 1962, and 1973 but by setting the hierarchy of parallel courts like the Federal Shariat Court, Anti-Terrorist Court, and Military Courts the executive always pressurizes the superior judiciary. In the period under study from 1990 to 2000, four assemblies were dissolved almost on the same charges of maladministration, corruption, etc, and these decisions of dissolutions were challenged in the Supreme Court Pakistan. But on every occasion the decision of the Supreme Court was different. Therefore the focus of the study is on the changing verdicts of the Supreme Court.