Pakistan: Imran Khan writes letter to Chief Justice Isa demanding punishment for subverters of constitution
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday, demanding punishment for those who have subverted the Constitution in matters related to allegations by six Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges about interference in judicial affairs by the country's intelligence apparatus, Pakistan-based Dawn reported. The development comes after six Islamabad High Court judges made allegations against interference in judicial affairs by Pakistan's intelligence apparatus.
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On March 25, six IHC judges wrote a letter to Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) members, regarding attempts to pressurise judges through abduction, torture of their family members, and secret surveillance in their homes.
Judges Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Babar Sattar, Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, Arbab Muhammad Tahir and Saman Rafat Imtiaz had signed the letter, according to Dawn report.
In the letter, Imran Khan called it «ironical» that those who were supposed to and duty-bound to provide justice were themselves seeking it. He stated that the IHC judges' demand for a judicial convention to look into the matter would have «exposed the scale of this meddling and demonstrated the extent to which, institutionally, those armed with weapons continue to overpower those armed with the pen.»
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan said the actions taken by the Supreme Court so far were «meek and indecisive.» He stressed that the
