Supreme Court, including the Federal System, is the most important and higher institution of the country and the head of the Supreme Court is called ‘Chief Justice of Pakistan’. There are other judges also in this court. The Chief Justice is nominated by the President of Pakistan and the other judges of the court are appointed by the mutual will of Chief Justice and the President.
Although the Supreme Court is stationed in Islamabad permanently but if the Chief Justice desires so, he can shift the court anywhere in the country. The Supreme Court is also the legal care taker of all the courts of law in the country.
The Supreme Court is legally empowered to change and to turn the decisions down taken by the highest court of law of the province; the High Court.
People think that it is the honourable judiciary that brought the former General down. With utmost respect to that branch of this nation, I very respectfully disagree. The same honourable judiciary endorsed his immoral, illegal coup, under the age-old, time-tested, extremely hollow ‘Doctrine of Necessity’. It would have been business as usual, even today, had Musharraf not infringed in the territory of the Lordships. Only when one of their own was sacked, the bench finally abstained from their deep slumber of decades. Yes we hear the thundering noise from the bench that ‘illegal coups’ will not be tolerated any more. My humble and utterly respectful question is, was a ‘coup’ ever legal to begin with? What was the dire necessity that enabled Generals Ayub, Yahya, Zia or Musharraf to trash the will of the people? Why were the Lordships not honest to their own oath and profession? Only and if only the bench would have nullified these illegal acts at those moments, Pakistan would be a much stronger nation.