Pak PM says parliament will have last word on elections

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a meeting with his legal team and some PML-N leaders vowing to hold Parliament "supreme" in the face of the Supreme Court's decisions regarding elections to the Punjab Assembly and staying implementation of the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act, 2023.

The Supreme Court had halted implementation of the bill seeking to curtail the Chief Justice of Pakistan's (CJP) powers to take suo motu notices and constituting benches.

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"The Prime Minister was told by the government's legal brains that he is ‘legally safe'," said a source. The legal team had informed the premier about possible action the Supreme Court could take against him for defiance by the government of its order to hold elections to the Punjab Assembly on May 14.

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