When the petitioner requested the special bench – comprising, besides the Chief Justice, Justice Munir A. Shaikh, Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui, Justice Iftikhar Ahmad Chaudhry, and Justice Qazi Muhammad Farooq – that the Court should at least say that LFO would come into force only with the Parliament’s approval, then Justice Munir A. Shaikh responded:
Article 239 is still in the Constitution and could be pressed into service by members of the Parliament.
And,
We are going beyond what you are asking for. (Weekly Independent, 21-27 November 2002)
In spite of all this, our considered opinion is that the issue now should be settled in the Parliament.
