In recent months, Pakistan’s courts have defied the power and the pressure of the army generals, who have sought to marginalize Imran Khan and his party
Supporters of Pakistan 's former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party leader Imran Khan celebrate after a court verdict overturned his illegal marriage conviction, outside the court building in Islamabad, on July 13, Khan remains jailed over allegations of inciting riots. Pakistan , the nuclear-armed country that is the fifth most populous in the world, is on the cusp of a revolution – at least, a judicial one.
The ruling was a major blow to Mr. Sharif, who was denied a powerful two-thirds parliamentary majority, as well as to the military. “The Supreme Court has undone a historic injustice” to the PTI, Pakistan’s premier daily newspaper Dawn wrote in itsthis weekend. “It is now hoped that this judgment will preclude the kind of blatant engineering that defined this last general election. The government and establishment must not stand in the way of its implementation.
“The electoral watchdog has a constitutional duty to be independent and impartial, yet it acted against a major political party, unlawfully denying PTI its right to contest elections.”reported last month, “It has become something of an open secret in Pakistan that the legal cases against Mr. Khan are being driven by army leadership, long considered the puppeteers of Pakistan politics who historically found a willing partner in the senior judiciary.
The judiciary’s renewed resolve began taking concrete shape when six of the eight judges of the Islamabad High Court wrote a joint letter in April that detailed the pressures they faced while hearing cases against Mr. Khan and his party. The judgesthat the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence Agency engaged in threats and acts of intimidation, including the kidnapping and torture of a judge’s relative and the installation of cameras in their bedrooms.
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