ISLAMABAD (National Times) \u2013 Calls for formation of the full court to take up the Islamabad High Court judges\u2019 letter case grow as the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) also has put forward the demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Going a step further, Hasan said Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Qazi Faez Isa should dissociate himself from the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also hit out at the Punjab government for torturing and arresting wheat farmers and denying them their due right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former GB chief minister Khalid Khursheed and PTI core committee member Advocate Abuzar Salman Niazi were also present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Opposition alliance demand<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A day earlier (on Tuesday), the leaders of the Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP), a grand alliance of six opposition parties, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mahmood Khan Achakzai presided over the meeting, attended by former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser, Balochistan National Party (BNP) chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal and others, which conducted a comprehensive review of the country’s political landscape and engaged in discussions regarding the complaints raised by six judges about alleged intervention of intelligence agencies in judicial matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several Bar associations and other lawyer bodies also want the apex court to entrust the case to the full court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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