The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal as inadmissible challenging issuance of production orders for Shehbaz Sharif and Khawaja Saad Rafique to attend National Assembly sessions, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Tuesday. 

The petition was filed in the Supreme Court in January 2019 by advocate Hanif Rahi seeking cancellation of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) orders that allowed issuance of production orders for Shehbaz Sharif and Khawaja Saad Rafique to attend National Assembly sessions.

A three-member bench headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan heard the petition. The petitioner had taken the plea that Shehbaz Sharif was appointed Chairman Public Accounts Committee when he was under NAB custody. He said that Parliament was not authorized to pass any law which negated other law. He argued that people who were under investigation attended Parliament and delivered speeches against NAB probe against him. 

Justice Ijazul Ahsan remarked that Hanif Rahi had no right to file that petition. He said how the petitioner could make Shehbaz Sharif and Kh Saad Rafique a party. How can we interfere in affairs of the Parliament, he questioned. 

Reporter Amanat Gashkori