Web Desk (LTN NEWS): The IHC has put together a five-judge panel led by Chief Justice Athar Minallah to hear the case of contempt for threatening a female additional district and sessions judge.
On August 31, the court will hear the matter. The PTI leader was charged with contempt of court after the registrar’s office brought it to their attention.
Sources told me that the written answer did not include a full apology. But Imran Khan might tell the judge that he is sorry for what he said about a woman judge on Wednesday.
Mr. Khan is also likely to ask the bench to look into claims that PTI leader Shahbaz Gill, who is in jail on sedition charges, was tortured.
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Sources also said that Imran Khan will ask if the IHC had the right to bring a contempt of court case against him and will use the rules of the court to back up his argument.
Senior lawyers, on the other hand, say that if Imran Khan doesn’t say he’s sorry, the bench will have to keep going against him.
A lawyer for the PTI said that the party leaders were very happy about the IHC decision to stop the PEMRA notice that would have stopped live TV broadcasts of Imran’s speeches.
PTI and the court
Since the Panamagate scandal in 2016, the PTI has been able to get the higher courts to do what it wants through social media campaigns.
In October 2016, Imran Khan, the leader of the PTI, said that he wanted to “lockdown” Islamabad to put pressure on the government to finish the Panamagate case quickly. When the PTI started its long march, the case was being heard by a larger group of judges put together by the former top judge Anwar Zaheer Jamali.
The top court stopped a political fight between the PML-N and the PTI on November 1, 2016, by ordering a judicial investigation into the Panamagate scandal. The bench said that it wanted all political parties, including the PTI, to change their minds. It also said that everyone should calm down.
Asif Saeed Khosa, who was CJP at the time, said, “Politics will go on, so people should have some peace now.” Later, the PTI ended its “lockdown” plan and joined what was going on.
When then-Chief Justice Jamali offered an inquiry commission to look into the Panamagate case in December 2016, PTI’s lawyer Naeem Bukhari turned it down. The case was then put off until 15 days before former Chief Justice Jamali’s retirement.
Because Mian Saqib Nisar had worked with the PML-N in the past, this led to a campaign of bad behavior against Supreme Court judges, especially the new CJP at the time, Mian Saqib Nisar. To continue the hearing, the former CJP Nisar put together a bigger bench without himself.
In January 2017, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan asked the PTI lawyer what kind of justice his client wanted. He was talking about the campaign against the judges.
In April 2017, two judges said that Nawaz Sharif could no longer be a lawmaker because of the Panamagate scandal.
But three judges on the larger bench sent the case to a JIT (joint investigation team) for more investigation.
Once again, a social media campaign was started against the judges who didn’t disqualify Nawaz and instead put together a JIT to investigate further.
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When the JIT report came out with its findings against the Sharif family, PML-N supporters also began to campaign against the judges, which was bad for their party. In contempt cases, three lawmakers were kicked out of office.
Several party activists went to jail as they used bad words to describe former CJP Nisar
The lawyers for the PML-N thought that the orders of former Chief Justice Nisar had hurt the party’s chances in the 2018 general elections. When the PTI took power, people thought that the government, the courts, and the establishment were all working together against opposition parties.
The opposition leaders were having a hard time with the PTI government and the National Accountability Bureau, but the high courts didn’t help them in time.
When Nawaz went abroad, Imran, the former PM, said that the courts helped him. But in his speech, former CJP Asif Saeed Khosa refuted Imran’s claims against the courts.
In the case of Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the PTI also kept up its campaign against a certain group of judges. Trolls on social media made fun of Justice Isa and his family. No part of the government paid any attention to the bad campaign against him and a few other judges.
During the time that former Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed was in charge, the PTI didn’t have any problems because former Attorney General of Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan helped a lot.
The PTI also ran a campaign against the Supreme Court because it ruled that the National Assembly deputy speaker’s decision and the dissolution of the house were not legal. Under Article 95 of the Constitution, the SC order let a vote of no confidence against the then-PM Imran pass.
Even though the SC told the NA speaker what to do, he or she was holding up the process, which could have given unconstitutional forces a chance to take over the country.
In response to the worries of the bar representatives, the Supreme Court and the Islamabad High Court both started operating at night. But the NA speaker quit, and later the no-confidence vote against Imran was finished, which got him kicked out of his job.
But the PTI did not like what the Supreme Court did to save the Constitution. Imran has asked why courts open at midnight in every case he has been in. At the same time, so have those who support him.
After this campaign, the SC looked at a petition from the PTI that asked Article 63A of the Constitution to make it so that lawmakers who switch sides can’t run for office again for the rest of their lives.
SC Judge Ijazul Ahsan allowed an appeal in the chamber against the registrar’s office’s objections to a PTI petition against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) notification for doing the delimitation process.
Even though the case of PML-N lawyer Makhdoom Ali Khan has been put off until May 17, the Supreme Court has set a presidential reference for May 9 to find out how Article 63A should be interpreted and what it covers. It should be noted that the PTI leadership has always asked for a decision on the presidential reference to be made quickly.
Nisar, who used to be CJP, also met Imran in Lahore. Media reports say that the former top judge was very worried about the PTI’s campaign against judges on social media.
While the PTI was always trying to put pressure on the judges, they also went to court for help in a number of different situations.
