JUSTICE (RETD.) SALAHUDDIN AHMED, CHAIRMAN.---These two petitions are directed against the validity of the Political Parties Act, 1962, S. P. No. 66 of 1979 also calls in question the Political Parties (Amendment) Ordinance, 1979 (XLII of 1979), which has further made stringent certain provisions of the Political Parties Act, 1962.
2. It has been contended that the existence of Political Parties creates bitterness and leads the way to the splitting up of the Muslim Umma.
3. The criticism against the Political Parties, more or less, are on the same line as that in the case of S. P. No. 41 of 1979 (Lahore) B. Z. Kaikaus v. Federal Government of Pakistan (PLD 1981 FSC 1).
4. Our decision in the case of S. P. No. 41 of 1979 (Lahore) B. Z. Kaikaus v. Federal Government of Pakistan and others will govern these two cases as well. It has been held therein that the Court has no jurisdiction to interfere with the Political Parties Act.
5. In view of unanimous revision of the Court both the petitions are dismissed.