The Supreme Court (SC) resumed the hearing of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law amendments case.on Thursday with former premier Imran Khan again attending the hearing via video link.
A five-judge bench led by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and including Justice Aminuddin Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Athar Minallah, and Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, is hearing the federal government’s intra-court appeal.
The federal government has challenged the apex court’s majority verdict in September last year, declaring amendments to the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 2002 illegal. Tuesday’s proceedings were telecast live on the apex court’s website.
At the outset of the hearing, Justice Minallah said the hearing should be broadcast in the same manner earlier hearings were. However, the chief justice said the case is “technical” in nature and is not a matter of public interest.
“The last hearing was not broadcast live and neither will we broadcast today,” added Justice Isa.
Following these remarks, the bench took a recess to deliberate if the hearing should be broadcast live.
