Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Tuesday observed that the exercise to seek details of the dual national government employees was just to collect data and the court would only propose recommendations to the government for action.
He observed that it would be the responsibility of parliament to update the law regarding the government employees holding dual nationality.
The CJP was heading a three-member bench, comprising of Justice Umar Ata Bandiyal and Justice Ijazul Ahsan, which heard a suo moto notice regarding dual national federal employees.
The court directed the Ministry of Defence to submit details of army officials holding dual nationality till Wednesday.
It also directed the ministry to appraise it as to whether the law prevented army officials and soldiers from holding dual nationality or not.
Justice Ata Bandiyal remarked that in the Asghar Khan case it was upheld that the country’s president was a government servant, and the same law should be applied to the defence forces personnel to ensure they were not foreign nationals.
Amicus curiae Shahid Hamid, in his recommendations submitted with the court, stated:"The federal and provincial governments should formulate negative list(s) of posts to which foreign nationals shall not be appointed for reasons of safeguarding national security and/or vital national interests.”
“The federal government should also be required to submit annual reports to Parliament in regard to enforcement / implementation of the 1966 Act prohibiting employment of ex-government servants with foreign government and agencies.”
“Shahid Hamid said Section 14(I) of the Pakistan Citizenship Act 1951 prescribed that a citizen of Pakistan shall lose his citizenship if he becomes a citizen of any other country.
However, Section 14(3) creates an exception from his general prohibition in case of citizens who are citizens of the United Kingdom or its colonies or such other country as may be notified by the federal government.
He said the number of countries with whom dual citizenship is permissible was 19.
The court adjourned the case till Wednesday.
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