ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People?s Party Senator Farhatullah Babar said on Tuesday that it is unfortunate that the supremacy of the parliament is ending.

The Senator, who is among those retiring this month, was delivering his farewell speech at the upper House of the parliament.

In his address, Babar said that the other institutions impinged the authority of the parliament.

Politicising the judiciary and vice versa has endangered the parliament, said the senator.

?This is concerning when the Chief Justice of Pakistan promises that he has no political agenda,? said Babar.

Babar further said that it is concerning when judges lean on ?contempt of court? for their integrity.

The senator said that due to spheres of influence of the institutions the parliament is failing.

In November 2017, Senator Farhatullah Babar resigned from the parliamentary committee on accountability laws.

On October 20, Babar had resigned from Senate?s Standing Committee on Defence, while refusing to share with media his reason for resignation.

In the recent polls, a number of prominent senators retired after completing their tenure.

Along with Babar, former Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Nasreen Jalil, Aitzaz Ahsan also retired in March, following which polls were held on March 5.