A formal reference has been presented to the Islamabad Bar Association that seeks the cancellation of the Imaan Mazari defender’s license to practice the law. Development was the result of a growing legal and professional dispute that involves the president of the Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC).
According to Express News on Tuesday, the reference was presented by defender Adnan Iqbal, who alleged that Mazari is involved in activities “that are considered against the State.” The petitioner asked the Board of Lawyers to revoke his license permanently and initiate a formal investigation.
This development occurs following the growing tensions between Mazari and the president of the Supreme Court Sarfaz Dogar. Last week, a verbal exchange was held during an audience on a petition that seeks the elimination of the name of the Balochjehti Balochjehti committee, Mahrang Baloch, from the Exit (ECL) control list, a case in which Mazari appeared as a lawyer.
During the hearing, CJ Draged Mazari, declaring: “You must keep your mouth closed and stay within the limits of respect,” according to reports, in response to Mazari’s comments, he said, they were out of legal reach. In addition, he referred to her as having called him “dictator” and refused to issue any directive in the matter.
After the incident, Mazari published in X: “I was there on the name of my client, not as an activist Imaan Mazari,” and added that he had led ‘according to the professional label (and a court should do the same)’.
She has filed a formal complaint with the IHC female harassment investigation committee, chaired by Judge Saman Rafat Imtiaz, under the protection against women’s harassment in the work of the workplace. In the complaint, he seeks an investigation into whether the president of the President of the Supreme Court that Dogar made “gender and threatening comments” towards her.
He has also requested that the matter be sent to the competent authority, the Supreme Judicial Council, for new measures.
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In a monitoring publication in X, Mazari declared: “I have presented an appendix to my initial complaint presented yesterday with the Supreme Judicial Council against the President of the Supreme Court to tell after the alarming development that took place yesterday, where the honorable judge who was competent authority for cases of harassment was arbitrarily and with a bad trustee attempt at a few hours after I had lodged my complaint.”
He referred to an IHC decision in which the court replaced the head of his harassment committee on Monday with the approval of Justice Dogar.
According to the sources, Judge INAAM AMEEN MINHAS has been appointed as the new head of the Women’s Harassment Committee, while Judge Saman Rafat has been eliminated from the position
A notification had been issued with the approval of the president of the President of Justice. The sources said that the details about the decision to eliminate Rafat justice from the paper will be published separately.
