PTI demands full court bench for IHC judges’ letter case

ISLAMABAD: Calls for formation of the full court to take up the Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges’ letter case grow as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) also has put forward the demand.

At a press conference, PTI central information secretary Raoof Hasan said the party demand formation of a full court to hear the all-important letter issue on a daily basis.

Going a step further, Hasan said Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Qazi Faez Isa should dissociate himself from the bench.

He said the meddling allegation was a serious matter and the full court should hear it. The CJP claimed there was no meddling in judiciary despite the fact that even a common man was aware of this, he said.

Former Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) chief minister Khalid Khursheed and PTI core committee member Advocate Abuzar Salman Niazi were also present.

Earlier on Tuesday, the leaders of the Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP) – grand alliance of six opposition parties – had demanded that the matter pertaining to the judges’ letter should be heard by a full court bench of the Supreme Court and those responsible for meddling in judicial affairs be taken to the task.

Mahmood Khan Achakzai had presided over the meeting which was attended by former National Assembly speaker and PTI member Asad Qaiser, and Balochistan National Party (BNP) Chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal and others.

Several Bar associations and other lawyer bodies also want the apex court to entrust the case to the full court. – INP