INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Disqualification not applicable in my case, says Jahangir TareenISLAMABAD: Responding to Supreme Court verdict
over petitions seeking duration of disqualification under Article 62(1)(f), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Jahangir Tareen said he knew
that the disqualification would be for life.Tareen tweeted: "I always believed 62 1(f) to be for life but not applicable in my case.""Full
money trail provided of tax paid Income, property declared in assets of children and not mine on advice of tax consultant
My review is still pending and IA justice will prevail," the former secretary general of PTI further said.The SC on Friday in its landmark
judgment ruled that disqualification of a lawmaker under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution would be for lifetime.Justice Umar Ata Bandyal
read out 60 pages verdict in the cases involving interpretation / determination of the question of temporary or permanent bar to contest
absence of a time limit for the ineligibility of a candidate for election in Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution is the basis for holding
counsels expressed concern over lifetime disqualification and worry that this may be disproportionate and a little harsh, however such
arguments are perhaps more suitable to the floor of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) than at the bar before this Court, Justice Sheikh Azmat
thereto, therefore, we (SC) cannot read into Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution, a period of such lack of qualification, which is not
aspect of the matter is rather ironic as several persons before us were or had been the Members of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) at some
February 14 after hearing the litigants, leading counsels, and amicus curiae in the case to determine whether a lawmaker disqualified under
Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution is disqualified from becoming a member of the parliament for life or temporarily.?
