{"id":77138,"date":"2019-12-27T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T10:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=77138"},"modified":"2019-12-27T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T10:58:04","slug":"pak-govt-files-review-petition-in-army-chief-bajwas-extension-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pak-govt-files-review-petition-in-army-chief-bajwas-extension-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak Govt files review petition in Army Chief Bajwa\u2019s extension case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Pakistan Government on Thursday filed a review petition against the Supreme Court\u2019s decision about legislation on the extension of service of Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A three-member apex court Bench headed by then Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa on November 28 granted a six-month extension to Gen Bajwa after being assured by the government that Parliament will pass a legislation on the extension\/reappointment of an Army Chief within six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petition argues that the apex court\u2019s verdict did not take into account \u201cimportant constitutional and legal\u201d points. It says the court has itself \u201cbeen giving extensions to additional and ad-hoc judges\u201d, making a case for the government to exercise this discretion as well, the channel reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its detailed judgment on December 16, the Chief Justice cautioned the government that \u201cunbridled power or position, like unstructured discretion, is dangerous\u201d.Prime Minister Imran Khan had extended Gen Bajwa\u2019s tenure through a notification in August, but the Supreme Court suspended it on November 26 due to irregularities in the manner of extension.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Government on Thursday filed a review petition against the Supreme Court\u2019s decision about legislation on the extension of service of Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa. A three-member apex court Bench headed by then Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa on November 28 granted a six-month extension to Gen Bajwa after being assured by [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77140,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77138\/revisions\/77140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}