The PPP-led government this week filed petitions in the apex court asking it to review its verdict.
Issuing details of its verdict barring opposition PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif from electoral politics, Pakistan's Supreme Court has slammed the former premier for "publicly propagating his biased opinion" and acting in a manner "prejudicial" to integrity of judiciary.
The apex court also said that Sharif had defaulted on loans from several banks and had been convicted by an anti-corruption court, nearly a month after it delivered a short verdict that disqualified the former Premier and his brother Shahbaz Sharif from contesting polls and holding public offices.
Following the February 25 verdict, Shahbaz was removed as chief minister of Punjab province, where president Asif Ali Zardari imposed Governor's rule prompting PML-N to back a countrywide anti-government protest by the lawyers.
The PPP-led government this week filed petitions in the apex court asking it to review its verdict.
In its detailed order issued on Saturday, the Supreme Court said Nawaz Sharif was "publicly propagating his biased opinion" and acting in a manner "prejudicial" to the integrity of the judiciary and "defaming and bringing into ridicule the judiciary as well as the armed forces."
The detailed order of the verdict given by a three-member bench said Nawaz Sharif was "not" a sagacious, righteous, non-profligate and honest person as he was convicted by an accountability or anti-corruption court.
"Under Article 45 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973... although sentences were pardoned by the President of Pakistan, yet conviction was still intact and effective and having not been set aside by any competent higher/appellate court, conviction and disqualification would remain in existence," the order said.
It said the former premier was a defaulter of loans from the National Bank of Pakistan, Habib Bank, United Bank, Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan, Muslim Commercial Bank and Bank of Punjab and cases for the recovery of loans are pending in the Lahore High Court.
The order said Shahbaz was a "fugitive from law" and loans obtained by him and his family were unpaid. It said that Shahbaz had "been and is continuously making well determined and decisively resolute efforts to ridicule, defame, harass, downgrade and humiliate the judiciary since 1997 till date".
Shahbaz was "disqualified from being elected or chosen as a member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab as he suffered from an inherent disqualification," it said.
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