SC urged to strike down anti-democracy clauses
ISLAMABAD – The incumbent Parliament has introduced some controversial and anti-democracy clauses – executive and legislature’s role in judges’ appointment, renaming of the NWFP province and abolishing the Political Party Order 1962 & 2002 regarding intra-party elections – in the 18th Amendment which are also in contradiction with the basic…
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