145
declared all on a sudden as conflicting only because
the text of the provision is similar verbatim with
the
provision
regime.
The
that
was
submission
devised
of
by
the
a
martial
learned
law
Attorney
General contains exactly this missing perspective. He
is very much aware that repealed article 96 is the
exact resemblance of the martial law provision, but
his over emphasis on this point is making his vision
blurred
to
see
unequivocally
clearly
approved
that
by
article
the
96
Fifth
has
been
Amendment
Judgment considering this provision a relatively far
better safeguard for the independence of the higher
judiciary and related constitutional posts.
In Asma Jilani V. The Government of Punjab, PLD
1972 SC 139, Hamoodur Rahman, CJ. though declared all
Martial Law Regulations, Martial Law Proclamations
and
Orders
illegal,
the
court
approved
the
views
taken in the case of The Attorney General of the
Republic V. Mustafa Ibrahim, 1964 CLR 195 observing
that ‘if it can be shown that it was enacted only in
order to avoid consequences which could not otherwise
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