• choices( 2nd correction) Act 2024 gets presidential assent • Legal experts believe SC will surely examine vires of rearmost law as it ‘ reverses direction’ of July 12 short order • Say smart move would’ve been to legislate law while seats case was still pending in court CHANGES to the choices law — putatively aimed at shutting the doors of congress on PTI’s ‘ independent’ lawgivers — are set to come the rearmost legal battlefield between the government, opposition and the bar. But legal experts say the ramifications of this wrangling could indeed extend to and review the scheme of separation of powers between the council, superintendent and the bar, which in itself is quite a thorny issue. On Thursday, sources in the Senate Secretariat said President Asif Ali Zardari had inked the bill confining independent campaigners from joining parties of their choice after the quested time period had expired. This was the government’s alternate move to amend the choices Act 2017 after the …
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