Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who had sought review of the June 19, 2012 verdict disqualifying him from holding a seat in parliament, was told by the Supreme Court on Wednesday to add to his petition the sentence awarded by a seven-judge bench on April 26 last year for committing contempt of court.

The bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, gave Mr Gilani a week to suitably amend his petition and also delete a portion in which he mentioned that he had restored the chief justice the moment he won a vote of confidence in parliament.The former prime minister was awarded a symbolic punishment of less than one minute by the seven-judge bench headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk on the charge of committing contempt of court for not pursuing $60 million graft cases in Swiss courts.

Similarly, a three-judge bench headed by the chief justice had on June 19 last year disqualified him from holding a seat in parliament.On Wednesday Mr Gilani, who himself pleaded his case before the court, argued that he did not think it necessary to challenge his sentence in the review petition because National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza had on May 24 last year decreed that the sentence did not disqualify him from being a member of the lower house.