Resolution for judges restoration to be tabled on May 12: Nawaz Sharif

LAHORE: The resolution regarding judges’s restoration will be presented in the Parliament on May 12, said PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif here on Friday. Addressing a meeting of Central Working Committee, Nawaz Sharif said agreement with Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari has been reached on judges reinstatement and the deposed judges will be restored on May 12 through a resolution to November 2 position. Nawaz Sharif said he tried to convince Asif Zardari during Dubai talks that they should stay united to keep the military away from politics. “I also made it clear that if judges are not restored the PML-N would no longer by part of the cabinet,” he added. He proposed to PPP Co-chairman to strike down seventeenth amendment of the Constitution and to impeach the President Pervez Musharraf. He said a 5-member committee comprising Aitezaz Ahsan, Khawaja Haris, Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim, Hafeez Pirzada and Mian Raza Rabbani will give final shape to the draft resolution for judges’ restoration. The committee will complete its working on constitutional package in the next four to five days, Nawaz Sharif informed. The meeting of Central Working Committee was attended by Raja Zafr-ul-Haq, Federal Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Rana Tanvir Hussain, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and other leaders