Over the past decade, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has
repeatedly chosen Friday to issue several landmark judgements that have
left a major impact on the country's political system.
With
two major judgements to be announced today, here is a list of major
decisions from the past 10 years which were also issued by the apex
court on a Friday.
July 20, 2007
A 13-member bench of SC judges unanimously overturned former president Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend then chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
July 31, 2009
The SC declared Musharraf's decision to impose an emergency on November 3, 2007 as well as his Provisional Constitutional Order illegal and unconstitutional.
July 28, 2017
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif stepped down as prime minister after he was disqualified by a five-member bench of Supreme Court judges in the Panama Papers case.
December 8, 2017
A Lahore High Court verdict halting the construction the Orange Line Metro Train was set aside by a SC bench
and the Punjab government was allowed to go ahead with the project
subject to certain conditions to ensure the preservation of heritage
sites int he area.
December 15, 2017
The three-member bench comprising SC judges rejected the National Accountability Bureau's appeal
to reopen the Rs1.2 billion Hudaibya Paper Mills reference. The
reference would have further complicated the Sharif family's legal
troubles.
