Contempt petition against PM Shehbaz set for hearing today

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has fixed for hearing a contempt of court petition against Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif, for using inappropriate language about judges.

Justice Muhamamd Waheed Khan would take up the contempt petition hearing against PM Shhehbaz Sharif on Friday (today).

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Lawyer Ashba Kamran had filed the petition, saying that PM Shehbaz used “inappropriate words” regarding judges of the superior judiciary.

She pleaded that the statement of the prime minister amounted to scandalising the judges and this act needed to be prosecuted for contempt of court charge against the PM.

WHAT DID PM SAY ?

Addressing an event on Tuesday, PM Shehbaz had said: “You are Pakistanis; you are judges. If development does not return to Pakistan, then there will be no judges, no politicians, and no one else.

Do you want this? I believe that most of these judges are Pakistanis and think about Pakistan’s development, but some ‘black sheep’ are helping [PTI founder] Imran Khan.”

The incumbent premier said when former PM Nawaz Sharif was under trial, he would not get bail in his cases, but currently, there are discussions about how the PTI founder can be sent out on bail and his cases be dismissed.

PM’s REMARKS ALSO DRAW IRE OF SC

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif recent “black sheep remarks” have drawn the ire of Supreme Court’s judges, who asked the top executive official to knock on the doors of relevant forums if he had complaints.

The remarks from the judges came during a hearing of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) amendment case earlier today.