Plea looking for contempt proceedings in opposition to PML-N chief Maryam filed in Pakistan courtroom

A petition looking for contempt proceedings in opposition to ruling PML-N chief Maryam Nawaz was filed in a Pakistani courtroom on Monday
for attacking the judiciary and “maligning” judges of the Supreme Court.

Maryam Nawaz slammed three serving judges of the Supreme Court and vowed to wage a warfare in opposition to them for being biased in opposition to her get together’s management. (Photo: Twitter)

By Press Trust of India: A petition looking for contempt proceedings in opposition to ruling PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz for attacking the judiciary and “maligning” judges of the Supreme Court was filed in a Pakistani courtroom on Monday.

Addressing a employees’ conference on Thursday, Maryam, 49, slammed three serving judges of the Supreme Court, together with incumbent Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, and vowed to wage a warfare in opposition to them for being biased in opposition to her get together’s management.

The daughter of former premier Nawaz Sharif delivered the hard-hitting speech in opposition to the judiciary in Sargodha metropolis, some 200 kms from Lahore.

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Advocate Rana Shahid in his petition submitted to the Lahore High Court mentioned Maryam made “contemptuous remarks” in her speech.

It has by no means occurred previously {that a} politician in public rallies displayed the images of serving judges of the apex courtroom and maligned them for his or her vested pursuits, he mentioned, in reference to Maryam’s displaying of the images on the conference.

She displayed the images of two Supreme Court judges, Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Mazahir Ali Naqvi, former chief justices Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa and former ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed and mentioned: “The people should see these faces as they were behind the conspiracy against Nawaz Sharif’s ouster from power (in 2017).”

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“What you see on the screen is the cabal of five… those visible on the screen are responsible for Pakistan’s crisis,” she had mentioned.

Not sparing incumbent Chief Justice of Pakistan Bandial, Maryam mentioned: “You are not paying attention to your basic responsibility — responsibility to make non-controversial benches but you are doing something else.”

The petition additionally mentioned Maryam accused the Supreme Court judges of paving the best way for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan to return to energy.

“Four days have passed by since Maraym’s contemptuous remarks against the top judges but no notice has been taken by the judiciary. On the other hand, former prime minister Imran Khan was ordered by a higher court to appear before it in person for a protective bail,” the petitioner mentioned.

He urged the courtroom to provoke contempt proceedings in opposition to Maryam for bringing Pakistan’s high courtroom to disrepute.

Meanwhile, on Monday, Maryam demanded redressal of “injustice” in opposition to the get together’s supremo and her father Nawaz Sharif, forward of the following elections.

Addressing a employees’ conference in Sahiwal right here, she mentioned: “Elections will be held after the conviction of innocent Nawaz Sharif is overturned.”

Sharif, who’s residing in London since 2019, stepped down because the prime minister in 2017, after being disqualified from holding public workplace by the Supreme Court in a landmark choice in a corruption case.

“The elections will be held after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan will be measured on the same standards of justice set for Nawaz Sharif,” she was quoted as saying by the Geo News.

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Raajnandini Mukherjee

Published On:

Feb 27, 2023