SHC moved against appointment of deputy PM

A petition was filed in the Sindh High Court against the appointment of Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar as deputy prime minister.

Petitioner Tariq Mansoor advocate submitted that the prime minister has been categorically mentioned as head of the federal government, and there has been not a single provision or article wherein the word, designation or title of the impugned deputy prime minister is mentioned.

He said that in the federal government’s rules of business so framed as are mandated under article 90 and 99 of the Constitution, there has been categorically mentioned in its rule 2 (iv) that cabinet means and consists of prime minster and the federal ministers only.

The court was requested to declare the notification of federal government and the appointment of foreign minister as deputy prime minister as unconstitutional and to direct the government to not bypass the constitutional commandments or arbitrarily exercise its power but only within the constitutional boundaries.