Legislation sovereign, constitutional right of NA: Sherry Rehman.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Wednesday said the legislation like Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill 2023 is the sovereign and constitutional right of the lower house of the parliament.

Participating in the debate on the legislative proposal related to judicial reforms, the federal minister said the Prime Minister in his speech had aptly made a clear depiction of the situation.

Senator Rehman said the notions like powers delegated to one person and the imperial Supreme Court were not stated by this house. She added that in the current situation, dissenting voices were arising from within the benches of the Court.

She said, 'We have for the first time seen such a situation of division and indecisiveness in Pakistan.

This division is not good for the benches, courts and the country because rule of law is the right of this house and legislation is the right of this house that has been asserted today.'

The concerns related to this Bill made by the members of the house and media should not have this impact that the house was influencing an institution, she added.

'The Parliament at the moment is exercising its sovereign right and power.

There has been a hue and cry on this matter for over past four decades since the time of General Zia-ul-Haq,' she said.

The Minister underlined that during Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's trial, two judges were moved out and the...