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Sharif wants court ban scrapped
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday parliament must overturn a ban imposed by a Supreme Court judge on a committee's inquiry into the case involving the daughter of Pakistan's chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar.
- By Shahid Hussain, Correspondent
- Published: 23:53 December 6, 2008
Islamabad: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday parliament must overturn a ban imposed by a Supreme Court judge on a committee's inquiry into the case involving the daughter of Pakistan's chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar.
The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Education was conducting the inquiry into alleged unlawful enhancement of examination marks of Farah Dogar by the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education.
A petition against the alleged favouritism towards the daughter of the top judge has already been admitted for hearing by the Islamic High Court, which is due to start the proceedings in second week of January. This court on Friday sealed Farha's examination record.
"Parliament is sovereign and the speaker must scrap the ban ordered by a Supreme Court judge," Sharif, chief of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N, said.
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