When a nation is beset with a plethora of complex problems as Pakistan is, their solutions demand multiple measures, including the need to pass new laws to meet a particular situation. Since there are different political parties with some having an axe to grind when it comes to lawmaking, utmost caution has to be exercised by the legislators to first ensure that the laws they are drafting and approving are strictly in consonance with the Constitution. Simultaneously, it has to be ensured that the citizens’ fundamental rights that the Constitution places at the top are safeguarded. In Pakistan’s case, no law repugnant to the Islamic principles, which guide the Constitution, could be enacted. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry stressed this with the example of the overturned 2006 Hasba Bill, in then NWFP, which was drafted by the MMA setup, and declared unconstitutional by a bench headed by the Chief Justice himself. He made this point while addressing a group of students belonging to Youth Parliament on Saturday. While he underscored Parliament’s supremacy he followed it up with emphasising that everything was subservient to law.In circumstances such as ours, well heeled opportunists find it easy to get into Parliament. Consequently, there has to be a final check on the legislation. Justice Chaudhry’s words that this power was vested with the Supreme Court are not in doubt. This authority of the Supreme Court as being the interpreter of the Constitution, is the practice in democracies the world over.