Pakistan, Feb. 8 -- The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) took suo motu notice (No.7/2017) regarding the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan's (TLP) Faizabad Dharna when the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seized of the matter in the Syed Pervaiz Zahoor case (WP No. 3914/2017).
The judgement of the IHC had concluded that a right to protest is a qualified right that needs to be balanced with other citizens' fundamental rights, adding that there is a designated place to protests in Islamabad i.e. "Democracy Park and Speech Corner [parade ground]".
The opinion of the Supreme Court in the suo moto case is authored by Justice Qazi Faez Isa. In an apparent attempt to disassociate from the unsparing use of original jurisdiction under the former Chief Justice and...