Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) demanded Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) to take firm and immediate steps to constitute a full court to hear suo motu notice pertaining to the meddling by the country’s security apparatus into judicial affairs detailing by six respected judges of Islamabad High Court (IHC) in their startling letter instead of shying away on the matter.
PTI Spokesperson, in a strongly-worded reaction over the CJP’s statement pertaining to the interference of intelligence agencies in judicial affairs under his watch and his visible reluctance to form full court on the judges’ letter issue, called the actions taken so far regarding the spy agencies’ interference in judicial affairs as a deliberate attempt to put the matter into a cold oven.
He reiterated that the six judges’ letter was a very serious, sensitive and grave issue; however, the steps, thus for, taken by CJP were insufficient, ineffective and very detrimental and dangerous for the future of the judiciary because intelligence agencies were digging the grave of democracy in Pakistan through open contempt of public mandate.
PTI Spokesperson went on to say that the Chief Justice tried to negate and defuse the matter during his speech in Karachi on Thursday, which was unfortunate, rather than taking any serious actions on the issue of very serious nature. He alarmed that the illegal and undue interference of spy agencies’ officials in state institutions, especially the judiciary and executive, would open the gate of destruction of the country and the nation.
PTI Spokesperson noted that the intelligence agencies were digging the grave of democracy in Pakistan through open contempt of public mandate, which was exposed by the Commissioner Rawalpindi in his public confessional statement. He recalled that PTI boycotted the 2008 general elections for the independence of the judiciary, where even hundreds of the party’s workers along with PTI Founding Chairman Imran Khan endured the hardship imprisonment to ensure supremacy of judiciary in the country.
