Govt files review petition in service extension case.

ISLAMABAD -- The government on Thursday filed a review petition in the Supreme

Court against the judgment related to service tenure of Chief of

Army Staff (COAS).

The petition prayed the court to constitute a larger bench to hear

the case and conduct in-camera proceedings of the matter.

It stated that the court had not viewed some legal points in its

verdict in army chief re-appointment/extension case.

It pointed out that the Supreme Court had also been giving

extension to the services of ad-hoc and additional judges in the

past.

It prayed that the court should have viewed the judges' extension

decisions in its judgment related army chief service. The top court's

decision had limited the power of executive, the petition said, adding

it was the authority of prime minister to decide tenure of an army

chief.

The petition said that it was not necessary for the executive to mention

the term of an army chief in accordance of the law as army was a security

institution and country's affairs were associated with it (security). Only the

Prime Minister was authorized to decide the tenure of army...