ISLAMABAD: The federation on Tuesday submitted its reply in the Supreme Court during the hearing of a petition against former president Asif Ali Zardari over barring him from leaving the country.
A petitioner, Shahid Orakzai, had filed an application in the apex court stating that Zardari, who completed his tenure as president on September 8, should not be allowed to leave the country as his predecessors had done in the past.
The federation’s reply submitted by the law division on Tuesday stated that according to Article 46 of the Constitution, the prime minister was bound to brief the president on internal affairs, foreign policy issues and legislation.
Moreover, the reply stated that the petitioner’s rights were not violated by the Abbottabad operation that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, adding that if the court wanted to probe the matter, the Established Division and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were the relevant bodies and the law ministry had not been made a party on the issue.
