Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the disqualification of a lawmaker under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution would hold for life. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was one of the lawmakers who the court had disqualified in the past under the article.

A five-judge bench of the court, led by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, gave the verdict unanimously, Dawn reported.

The Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution sets conditions for MPs to be “honest and righteous”. Other articles under which lawmakers can be disqualified, such as Article 63, state the length of the disqualification period, but Article 62(1)(f) does not. A series of appeals and petitions had challenged the length of disqualification under the article. The Supreme Court had reserved its verdict on the matter on February 14.

At the last hearing, the government had argued that the length of disqualification should be left for the Parliament to decide, not the court.

The judges, however, ruled that according to the Constitution, those who are not “honest” and “truthful” as per law are banned from Parliament for life, Geo News reported.

In July 2017, then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif quit after the Supreme Court disqualified him from the post because of corruption charges against him and his family in the Panama Papers case. Disqualifying the prime minister from holding office, the judges had unanimously said Sharif had been dishonest to Parliament and the courts and was not fit to hold the position.