Islamabad: Pakistan Supreme Court has denied reports of making observations that laws brought in by the Musharraf government were not valid without the approval of the Parliament to be elected after forthcoming polls, terming it as "misreporting".

"It is clarified that this is misreporting and no such observation was made by the Supreme Court of Pakistan during hearing of the aforesaid election petition," the Registrar of Supreme Court said in a statement late on October 1 night.

Media in Islamabad on October 1 said a full bench of the Apex Court, while hearing an election petition, observed that laws promulgated under Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) brought in by President Pervez Musharraf to replace the Constitution after the 1999 military coup had no legal status without validation by Parliament.

Pakistan Bar Council, which was agitating against the recent Constitutional amendments brought in by Musharraf, had also welcomed the Court's observations.

Despite the denial by the Court, the papers came out with lengthy editorials on October 2 on the reported observations as the comments had significant bearing on the October 10 elections.

"The bench of the Supreme Court has apparently set a legal booby-trap to General Pervez Musharraf's three-year rule by holding that the PCO under which he had ruled the country since 1999 would not be legally binding unless the next duly elected Parliament validated it," the 'Daily Times' said in its editorial.

"The PCO is the 'shadow' Constitution under which General Musharraf has been making and breaking laws. His Legal Framework Order issued in 2002 bars any court from calling in question any orders issued by him," it said.

PTI