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Resignations wouldn’t impact presidential election: AG
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General of Pakistan, Malik Muhammad Qayyum has said that the resignation of any member of the assembly would have no impact on the presidential election, besides the President with or without uniform could contest the presidential election under the constitution and law.
AG Malik Muhammad Qayyum, Dr. Khalid Ranjha, Sharifuddin Pirzada, S.M. Zafar and Wasim Sajjad met the President General Pervez Musharraf here.
Later, AG Malik Muhammad Qayyum told that the president in his meeting with the constitutional and legal experts sought their opinions on the presidential and general elections and no particular issue was focused.
When quizzed, Malik Qayyum told that S. M. Zafar advised the president to contest election without uniform, but this was a political one, as the constitutional and legal position was that the president could contest election with or without uniform and now it depends on the president, as to what decision he takes.
AG further said that the President Musharraf could remain president in uniform, following the 17th Amendment. He said that the resignation of any member assembly would have no impact on the Electoral College. The presidential election could only be held back, in case of the dissolution the assembly.
He said that the Supreme Court had already given its decision in favour of the president’s uniform and, therefore now, it was not likely that the SC would take some other decision in this regard.
Courtesy Geo