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| Parliament has authority to abrogate constitution, SC told |
| 2015-05-30 |
| [DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government defended parliament in the Supreme Court on Thursday and said when it amended the constitution, it exercised constituent power and not legislative. Senior counsel Iftikhar Gillani, appearing on behalf of the KP government, argued before a 17-judge full court hearing challenges to the 18th and 21st amendments that being a supreme body, the parliament even had the authority to abrogate the constitution. "If a new constitution has to be brought in, the old one has to be abrogated," the counsel said when Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed asked whether parliament could abrogate or repeal the constitution. |
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