Supreme Court to resume hearing Article 62 case today

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will resume hearing case pertaining to Article 62 (1)(f) today. A five-member larger bench, headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, is hearing the case to determine the duration of disqualification of elected officials on violation of Article 62(1)(f) and other related laws. In its previous hearing, the chief justice directed Nawaz's counsel to come prepared on the case next week. Though the over dozen petitioners are lawmakers disqualified for possessing fake degrees, the case has ramifications for Nawaz as well as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) former secretary general Jahangir Tareen ? both were unseated from Parliament on violation of Article 62(1)(f). 'Sadiq and Ameen' Article 62(1)(f) reads: "A person shall not be qualified to be elected or chosen as a member of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) unless-...he is sagacious, righteous and non-profligate, honest and ameen, there being no declaration to the contrary by a court of law." On December 15, last year, the Supreme Court had disqualified Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Jahangir Tareen for failing to declare an offshore company and a foreign property in his election nomination papers. Similarly, then-prime minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified on July 28, 2017 for concealing in his nomination papers the receivable income from his son's company in UAE.