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Pakistan’s Supreme Court ask  Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to approach Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, envisage  July 25 deadline triggering a fresh political crisis.Repeat  issue on Yousuf Raza Gilani, costed his job.Gilani was convicted of contempt in April and disqualified Gilani for five years last month after he refused to act on the apex court’s orders to reopen the graft cases.

A five-judge bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa directed Ashraf to write to the Swiss authorities without any further consultations on the matter with legal experts or within the government.
The apex court had earlier directed the Premier to inform it whether he would contact the Swiss authorities about the graft cases.The bench said it expected the Premier to write to the Swiss authorities and furnish a report on complying with the court’s order at the next hearing on July 25.

If the PM fails to do so, the court will take action under the Constitution against him, the bench warned.
The bench rejected Ashraf’s response, submitted through Attorney General Irfan Qadir, that the issue of the graft cases was discussed by the Cabinet at a meeting Wednesday and the government wanted more time so that the Law Minister and Law Secretary, who had recently assumed office, could study the matter.
The ruling came just hours after President Zardari signed into law the Contempt of Court Bill, 2012, which was passed by the National Assembly two days ago, aimed at protecting top government leaders from contempt of court proceedings.The new law is intended to save Ashraf from possible disqualification by the court for refusing to reopen the cases related to alleged laundering of $60 million during ex-premier Benazir Bhutto’s second term in the 1990s.

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