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Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s):Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Javaid Iqbal, Faqir Muhammad Khokhar,

Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi, Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, Shakirullah Jan, Sayed Saeed Ashhad, M. Javed Buttar Title:BY THE PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN: IN THE MATTER OF vs Makhdoom Ali Khan, Attorney-General for Pakistan, Raja Muhammad Irshad, Deputy Attorney- General, Nasir Saeed Sheikh, Deputy Attorney-General, Ms. Nahida Mehboob Ellahi, Deputy Attorney-General, Faisal H. Naqvi, Advocate, Uzair Karamat Bhandari, Advocate, Khurram M. Hashmi, Advocate, M.S. Khattak, Advocate-onRecord for Petitioner Case No.: REFERENCE NO.2 OF 2005 Date of Judgment:2005-08-04 Reported As: 2005 SCMR 1601 Result: Order accordingly Judgment ORDER ' IFTIKHAR MUHAMMAD CHAUDHRY, C.J.--- For the reasons to be recorded later, in our considered opinion, sections 10(URDU TEXT), 12(1)(URDU TEXT), (4e) and (URDU TEXT), section 23(1), (2), (3), (5), (6), (7), (12), (14) & (27), section 25(1) & (2) and section 28 of the "Hasba Bill", 2005, passed by the Provincial Assembly of N.-W.F.P., are ultra vires the Constitution, of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, therefore, the Governor of the N.-W.F.P. May not assent to the "Hasba Bill" in its present form.

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