be no talk about various seats as their cases had already been taken up by election tribunals. The JC would only look into the drawbacks of the election system and their rectification.
Referring to allegations by Imran Khan, he said Imran’s 90 per cent allegations were false. The JC should grill Imran Khan over his allegations. Sethi said he had not written to the JC to call him. “Rather, I requested the commission to call Imran Khan and order him to prove allegations against me,” he said, adding that if there was any solid proof against him, he would answer them. He said Imran Khan leveled the allegation of “35 punctures” against him. He should pinpoint the punctures. Imran was crying about only 16 seats in Punjab, but he himself didn’t know what he was talking about.
Sethi said Javed Hashmi gave very serious statements against Imran, saying that he talked about the former chief justice in the PTI Core Committee meeting. The Judicial Commission should first call Imran Khan and Javed Hashmi and ask them to speak truth. On Yemen, he said Pakistan was not impartial in this conflict. Imran Khan had raised the issue of neutrality in the parliament and it had pinched the PML-N. After the Arab countries objected to the Pakistani parliament’s resolution on Yemen, the prime minister changed his stance and said the ousted Yemen government should be restored as it was legal and the fight by the Houthis was illegitimate. This way, Pakistan adopted a stance on the civil war in Yemen according to the will of Saudi Arabia. He said the Arab countries had done well by getting a resolution passed by the UNSC on Yemen. No nobody could ask Pakistan which side it was on. Pakistan had demonstrated good politics. Shahbaz Sharif visited Saudi Arabia to assure the Saudis that Pakistan was standing by them.
On the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s decision to stop six death sentences awarded by military courts, Sethi said the SC gave the verdict as per the Constitution, but this decision would not leave good political impacts. The army would not like this verdict. This verdict could enhance tension between the army and the judiciary. The SC should immediately resolve this tension.