The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea of former premier Sardar Tanveer Ilyas to suspend the High Court judgement which disqualified him from being a member of the Legislative Assembly and holding any public office for two years.
The high court judgement, which was passed on Tuesday, held him in contempt for remarks he had made in a function in Islamabad over the weekend, in which he indirectly blamed the judiciary for affecting the functioning of his government and interfering in the domain of the executive through the grant of stay orders.
He had particularly referred to a $15 million Saudi-funded education sector project, saying it had been in a limbo because the court had issued a stay order on it. Similarly, he had also taken strong exception to the “de-sealing by the courts of tobacco factories involved in tax evasion to the tune of billions of rupees”.
