Pakistan's Supreme Court bench hearing the local government elections case on Thursday said the government had “killed democracy” by dissolving local bodies (LBs) in Punjab before the expiry of their term.

“You killed democracy and this is unconstitutional and worse than dictatorship,” observed Justice Qazi Faez Isa who was heading the two-judge Supreme Court bench also consisting of Justice Maqbool Baqar who bemoaned by asking how the mandate could be snatched from people.

“Will you throw away the entire local government system if you do not get favourable results tomorrow and an opposition party sweeps the elections,” wondered Justice Isa, adding that this came under the purview of Article 6 of the Constitution, which dealt with treason. “Instead of derailing the entire system why don’t you want to keep the system running,” the court asked the government.

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