letter<\/a> penned by PTI chief Imran Khan wherein he had sought protection of his party\u2019s fundamental rights.<\/p>\nIn his letter to CJP Isa on Thursday, Imran had asked the Supreme Court (SC) to intervene and stop the alleged abductions and disappearances of his party workers and journalists sympathetic to its cause. The letter had also called for action against the PTI\u2019s \u201cpolitical victimisation\u201d and sought equal opportunities for the party to carry out an election campaign.<\/p>\n
A press release issued today by CJP Isa\u2019s Secretary Dr Mushtaq Muhammad Ahmed said the top judge was \u201cfully cognisant of his constitutional duties and will neither be pressurised nor favour anyone, and \u2026 shall continue to fulfil his duties and abide by the oath of his office\u201d.<\/p>\n
It said the top judge\u2019s office had received a seven-page application on Friday which was \u201cbound in a yellow-paper book, the kind used for filings in the Supreme Court\u201d, yet the identity and contact details of the advocate who prepared the document were not mentioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cMisgivings also arise when the political party on whose behalf the document has ostensibly been sent is well represented by advocates. Only recently its advocates conducted two significant cases in the Supreme Court, on the military courts and on the elections,\u201d the press release said, without identifying the advocates it was referring to.<\/p>\n
It added that \u201csurprisingly\u201d, the document\u2019s contents were also distributed to the media before the sealed envelope was even received by the CJP\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
In 2019, under the Imran-led PTI government, a presidential reference was filed against Justice Isa over alleged misconduct and non-disclosure of foreign assets.<\/p>\n
However, after he was removed from power in 2022, Imran had admitted the reference was a \u201cmistake\u201d and he \u201cshould not have unnecessarily confronted the judiciary\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa would \u201cneither be pressurised nor favour anyone\u201d, said a press release issued from his office on Saturday following the receipt of a letter penned by PTI chief Imran Khan wherein he had sought protection of his party\u2019s fundamental rights. In his letter to CJP Isa on Thursday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/12\/02212535d78f6ad.jpg?r=213343","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t