Islamabad:
The Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC) has initiated contempt procedures against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his full cabinet for ignoring his order to provide reasons not to help a hearing of the US court.
“As the government has not returned with the reasons even though they are told to do so, it is contempt, leaving me without option to issue a notice of contempt to the federal government.
“The position is aimed at initiating a request for contempt accordingly, in which all the members of the federal government will be surveyed. The responses of all ministers, including the prime minister, will be presented within two weeks as of today,” said an order of three pages written by Judge Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan.
The judge pointed out that in his last order he had given the government time to reverse with his decision, while warning the state law officer that the inaction would result in contempt procedures.
On July 15, the Federal Government approached the Supreme Court, trying to revoke the Order of May 16, 2025 of the IHC that allowed amendments to a previously established request on Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, almost a decade after its presentation. The SC, however, has not yet listed the audience request.
Judge Ejaz Ishaq Khan was going on summer vacation as of Monday (July 21). However, he had announced at the last hearing that he would listen to the case on July 21.
Interestingly, the IHC did not list the case for the audience before its bank. The judge, however, heard the case on Monday and then issued an abrasing order, criticizing the President of the Justice of IHC, Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, and all the “demolition estrad” catapulted in “the IHC after the 26th amendment.
Judge Khan said that the license schedule was announced much earlier to the date he had ordered to list this case today, given its importance and the need for rapid dispensation of justice
“On Thursday or maybe Friday, they informed me through my ps [personal secretary] By the office, the list of causes will not be issued unless the list of acting judges for this week is modified with the permission of the president of the Supreme Court.
“That seemed like a trivial issue and asked my PS to transfer a request accordingly. They informed me on Saturday that the request was properly transferred, but the file remained in the table of the president of the Supreme Court, which did not find even 30 seconds to sign it.
“Either by design or supervision, I cannot say with certainty, but given the way in which the list of judges has been used as a tool for the desired result in specific cases, and given the hard opposition of the government to do the right thing and support the daughter of the nation at the critical situation of the motion before a court of the United States, I can be forgotten for thinking that it was the first.”
He said that the Government presented an appeal before the Supreme Court against its previous decision allowing amendments to the request for continuation of this case, but the SC did not occupy the case.
“[So] The executive machinations appeared elsewhere, in the form of control of the procedures of this court through its list.
“Legal historians would write that now, even if you wish, for imperatives of urgent justice, now a judge cannot hold court for the establishment of the Superior Court when he is on permission.”
He said that the correct legal position is that the office cannot use the shoulder of the CJ in the exercise of administrative powers to obstruct the judicial procedures ordered by a judge.
He said that the motivation of a judge to celebrate the court on a day in which he is officially ‘licensed would explain whether the reason to hold the Court was some hidden reason or the dispensation of justice.
“I trust that all men and women of correct thought would agree with me that today my decision to celebrate the court was exclusive and exclusive to the purposes of the dispensation of justice.
He said that the days were that a judge could approve an order even while playing golf or dining with his family, if the demand was necessary. The tunic ceremony and a court room, or the servile triviality of a list of causes, since in this case they were never the essential requirements for judicial matters.
“This is another instance of the reproachable use of administrative power to chain the exercise of independent judicial authority, with the probable motivation to pender (until my license ends) the government’s response with reasons why the brief amic would not sign.
“However, the imperatives of justice will not be defeated by such minor means. To the extent that I can exercise my judicial authority until the end of defending the dignity of the Superior Court and the justice that dispenses,” he added. The bank will resume the audition of the case on September 1.
