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" CONSTITUTIONAL FORCE OF A SPEAKER'S RULING CONSTITUTIONAL FORCE OF A SPEAKER'S RULING   By   Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan   The "Objectives Resolution", passed by the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in March, 1949, provided, inter alia, as follows:   "Whereas sovereignty over the entire universe belongs to Allah Almighty alone and the authority which He has delegated to the State of Pakistan, through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust; .   This Constituent Assembly representing the people of Pakistan resolves to frame a Constitution for the sovereign independent State of Pakistan; Wherein the State shall exercise its powers and authority through the chosen representatives of the people;‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑",   In the successive Constitutions that were adopted by the people of Pakistan over the last four decades the principles and provisions of that Objectives Resolution were added as a Preamble thereto till the year 1985 when, through the insertion of Article 2A in the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973, it was, categorically provided that "The principles and provisions set out in the Objectives Resolution reproduced in the Annex are hereby made substantive part of the Constitution and shall have effect accordingly".   In the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 the body of the chosen representatives of the people at the Federal level who are to exercise the sovereignty of Allah Almighty in the State of Pakistan as a sacred trust is called the Mjlis‑e‑Shoora (Parliament) which, by virtue of Article 50 of the Constitution, consists of the President and two Houses…