Top Story February 3, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed has said that if the government doesn’t withdraw the Presidential Reference, the apex court will give its advice. A five-member larger bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Yahyah Afridi and Justice Ijazul Ahsan resumed the hearing in the Presidential Reference. Continuing his arguments, Attorney-General Khalid Javed submitted that the political parties earlier favouring holding of Senate elections through an open ballot were now opposing and creating hurdles to the process. “It is the obligation of the federal government that to ensure transparency in the elections, it is the desire of the government to hold the Senate elections through an open ballot, however, the market has been set for selling the horses for the elections.”