Islamabad:
The leader of Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI), Salman Akram Raja, said the recent letters of two judges of the Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC) on Wednesday had “exposed the state of the Judiciary”, since he criticized government leaders to make foreign trips while the country fights with floods.
A day before, the judge of IHC Babar Sattar and Judge Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan raised serious questions about the lack of transparency in the Superior Court and wrote separate letters to the President of the Supreme Court Sardar Sarfraz Dogar.
Going to a press conference together with the leaders of PTI and the opposition alliance in the Federal Capital, Raja said that the letters written by the two IHC judges had “exposed the reality of the judicial system.” He added that the country faced devastating floods while government leaders participated in foreign tours.
Raja condemned the attack on the manifestation of Akhtar Mengal, qualifying it as a terrorist act against which “no patriot can remain silent.”
At least 17 people lost their lives and more than 30 were injured in a powerful explosion near a BNP demonstration in Quetta on Tuesday.
Raja questioned the fate of the promised funds after the 2022 Geneva Conference, claiming that corruption and negligence had worsened the situation of the flood. “Exports have fallen, imports have increased and the economic crisis has completely exposed the simulated system installed after February 8,” he said.
Majlis Wahdat-E-Muslimeen leader, Allama Raja Nasir Abbas, said Pakistan was dismembered in 1971 and warned that societies without collapse of justice. “Before these floods, the country faced a flood of constitutional violations. If we want unity, we must accept the supremacy of the law,” he said, warning that the peaceful political struggle was being described as terrorism to suffocate dissent.
The former speaker of the National Assembly, Asad Qaiser, also condemned the attack on the manifestation of Mengal and highlighted the devastation in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where 13 members of a single family were killed in Bannu.
He urged the Federal Government to work with provinces to build small dams, complete delayed projects such as the initiative of one billion trees and guarantee constitutional supremacy. “Mian Sahib used to say ‘respect the vote’, but when you lost the mandate on February 8, you should have resigned,” he added.
The former governor of Sindh, Muhammad Zubair, said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had pronounced a speech in China saying that there was a “zero corruption” under his mandate.
“The general auditor’s report clearly shows that RS300 billion had been lost in the wheat scandal, while the owners of sugar factories that are part of the government pocketed RS300 billion.”
Speaking on the occasion, former Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar said that everyone was aware of the “limited space for freedom of expression.”
“They had taken the air from the media. A few days ago, a journalist was collected from his residence. When [I] I saw the tweet [he had] He did not publish anything objectable, “Khokhar said.
“[When] The judges of the Supreme Court and the Superior Court declare that the Judiciary is not independent, “Where should we turn?” He asked.
Khokhar said that the letters of IHC judges had made everything clear, leaving people wondering what door they should call for justice. “
He announced plans to publish a White Paper that covers the judicial history of former Judges Chief Iftikhar Chaudhry A Qazi Faez Isa.
