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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and former law minister Babar Awan on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it could not order the reopening of cases overseas, FTNews reported.
The apex court was hearing the petition seeking a review of the court’s judgment that declared the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) illegal.
During the hearing, Awan said the attorney general at the time had written the letter to the authorities without taking advice.
He further said that the court had ignored the law of past and close transaction, adding that the court had no authority to reopen overseas cases to investigation.
Awan claimed that the federal government had never protected the NRO.
During the hearing, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry remarked that the constitution and law governed the country.
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