Imran should have raised concerns against NAB amendments in parliament instead of SC, observes Justice Shah

Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of the Supreme Court said on Wednesday that former prime minister and PTI chairman Imran Khan should have approached the parliament regarding his reservations against recent amendments to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) ordinance instead of bringing the matter to the apex court.
Justice Shah is a part of the three-member Supreme Court bench — also comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Ijazul Ahsan — that took up Imran’s plea, which claims the new NAB laws are and “violation of fundamental rights”.
During the hearing today, Justice Shah said that the public had trusted Imran by electing him a member of the National Assembly. “Why did he leave the assembly without the wish of the people of his constituency?” he inquired, adding that the PTI chief could have raised his objections against the NAB ordinance in the parliament as well.
The hearing
At the outset of the hearing today, Imran’s lawyer Khwaja Haris presented his arguments before the bench, claiming that the new amendments had rendered the accountability law “ineffective”. “In the past, the Supreme Court had declared corruption cancer for the country,” he recalled. “Public officeholders were never given exemption in any accountability laws that were made.
Source: Dawn.com