Wednesday 2nd October was arguably the saddest day in the history of the apex court. Reportedly a lawyer Mustafain Kazmi who claimed to represent PTI during the hearing of the review petition on opinion rendered on Article 63-A by SC suddenly stood up and challenged the legal status of the bench as well as threatened the bench that 500 lawyers were standing outside and they would see how the court gives a verdict against PTI. The CJ exhibited remarkable patience against this ultimate impudence and only restricted himself to ordering the expulsion of the lawyer from the court. Although Senator Ali Zafar who also was pleading the case on behalf of PTI distanced himself from what Mustafain Kazmi had said but it seemed a pre-planned strategy to intimidate the judges on the bench.

While this was happening within the court a group of nearly 500 PTI lawyers held a demonstration outside SC raising slogans against the CJ and reportedly also burnt his effigy. What happened on that day within and outside the court can be better understood in the backdrop of a statement by Hamid Khan a member of PTI and a lawyer a few days ago when he announced the launch of a lawyers’ movement for stopping the government from pushing the proposed constitutional amendment package through the parliament. He said that the lawyers would throw these amendments in the dustbin as the present parliament had no legitimacy to make such amendments. He asserted that the constitutional court would be built on their dead bodies.

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