The President's Immunity?
By: Farooq Hassan
January 24th, 2012
“The Supreme Court (SC) heard Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in response to a notice for contempt on January 19, who told the seven-member bench that while he had the highest regard for it, but could not comply with its wishes. The PM said that he had not intended to defy the court’s earlier orders given as far back as December of 2009 about writing to Swiss authorities for reopening the money laundering case against President Asif Zardari, but “it is my conviction that he has complete immunity inside and outside the country. In the Constitution, there is complete immunity for the President.” With respect to this view, I’m constrained to bring out the following points of constitutional jurisprudence and international law that ought in my submission to govern the present situation.”
1 comment Jock Gill | Civil Rights and Equality, Democracy, Empowerment, Ethics, Islam, Politics
Brilliant and succinctly written piece seems a masterly display of the learned author’s expert status in this domain. ever since he wrote that tremendous monograph on the coups d’tat of the world at Stanford, I have the highest respect for Dr.Hassan’s scholarship and erudition.We at the South Asian Strategic Studies Institute think most highly of his academic contributions.