Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that he opted out of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), reconstituted after the enactment of the 26th Constitutional Amendment, following the PML-N-led government’s “failure to fulfil its promise” to ensure equal representation in the top judicial body.
“I withdrew my name from the [JCP] in protest as the incumbent government did not fulfil the promise regarding equal representation made at the time of the [26th] amendment,” he said in an informal conversation with journalists in Karachi on Thursday.
In response to a question regarding the nomination of all the existing Sindh High Court judges to be the judges of constitutional benches, Bilawal said had he been present in the JCP meeting, he would have sought clarification over the “indifferent” attitude towards his province.
