ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has allowed to broadcast live the hearing of a reference filed against the hanging of PPP’s founder and former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979.
A nine-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Qazi Faez Isa started the hearing today.
The members of the bench are: Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi and Justice Musarrat Hilali.
PPP’s lawyer Farooq H. Naek and other lawyers represented the petitioner while Attorney General for Pakistan Mansoor Usman wad in the court on behalf of the state and read out the content of the petition.
The presidential reference was filed by the PPP government through then president Asif Ali Zardari in 2011.
According to the apex court, a larger bench of nine judges headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa will take up the petition on Tuesday.
Earlier, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari requested the court to allow live streaming of the hearing, which was accepted.
Today, before the start of the hearing, Bilawal and other PPP leaders arrived in the court.
The apex court had started hearing the reference after forming an 11-member bench headed by former chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
The bench held six hearings of the reference from January 2012 to Nov 2012, but could not issue a judgement.
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